Abstract:To provide an updated literature review on pediatric procedural sedation in the emergency department. Discuss patient evaluation, monitoring, indications, and contraindications of common pharmacologic agents used for procedural sedation during orthopedic fracture reductions in the pediatric emergency department. Literature search from 1995 to 2015 was conducted using MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL, Cochraine and EMBASE databases. Terms included; procedural sedation, fracture reduction, orthopedic reduction, fasting,… Show more
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