{"id":500,"date":"2022-01-17T06:31:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/?p=500"},"modified":"2022-01-17T06:31:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:31:20","slug":"new-cpg-procedural-sedation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/new-cpg-procedural-sedation\/","title":{"rendered":"New CPG: Procedural sedation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Procedural_sedation\/\">Procedural sedation<\/a> CPG is a new topic and has been reviewed by the CPG committee.<\/p>\n<p>This CPG forms part of a suite of CPGs relating to sedation, other topics are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Ketamine_use_for_procedural_sedation\/\">Ketamine use for procedural sedation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/guideline_index\/Nitrous_Oxide_Oxygen_Mix\/\">Nitrous oxide \u2013 oxygen mix<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">The Key points for the CPG are<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Use non-pharmacological methods as alternatives or adjuncts, such as play therapy and distraction techniques<\/li>\n<li>Topical agents, local or regional anaesthesia should be used if appropriate (eg Bier block)<\/li>\n<li>Ensure adequate analgesia, monitor for combined effects of sedation and opiate analgesia<\/li>\n<li>Choice of sedative agent depends on child factors, the experience of the clinical team and location where the sedation is to be administered<\/li>\n<li>Sedation agents should only be used by clinicians who are trained and approved in their use in children and who have experience in paediatric resuscitation, airway management and monitoring<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procedural sedation is a new CPG and will be considered for PIC endorsement in February 2022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11797,28,9503],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-individual-cpg-posts","category-news","category-newsletter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":502,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/clinicalguide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}