Upper Respiratory Infections and Airway Adverse Events in Pediatric Procedural Sedation

CONCLUSIONS:
URI status is associated with a statistically significant increase in frequency of AAEs and AI during pediatric procedural sedation for the population sedated by our consortium. Although URI status merits consideration in determining potential risk for sedation, rates of some AAEs and AIs remained low regardless of URI status.

Source: PEDIATRICS - June 30, 2017 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Mallory, M. D., Travers, C., McCracken, C. E., Hertzog, J., Cravero, J. P. Tags: Emergency Medicine Article Source Type: research