Administration of Moderate Procedural Sedation and Analgesia: Keeping the Patient Safe, 7th Ed.
A comprehensive review of current evidence-based guidelines for IDENTIFYING RISKS AND managing patients who receive moderate PROCEDURAL sedation and analgesia.
Sedation and analgesia are frequently administered to patients in both hospital and ambulatory settings to relieve the pain, discomfort and anxiety associated with diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Sedation and analgesia are often necessary to minimize patient movement so that procedures can be performed safely and successfully in the most expedient fashion. Staff that are involved in the care of patients who require sedation and analgesia should be knowledgeable of the essential components of the process so that the patient's experience is optimized while risks to patient safety are minimized. Patients must be fully assessed and monitored, and optimal dosages of sedative and analgesic agents must be carefully determined based upon patient characteristics and procedure requirements to avoid the deleterious consequences of cardiac or respiratory depression (i.e. hypoxic brain damage, cardiac arrest, or death).
This educational activity will provide reinforcement of evidence-based standards for administering moderate sedation and analgesia in both hospital and ambulatory settings; and will provide a review of current guidelines for safely managing and monitoring sedated patients in such settings.
The course material is presented in five segments:
- The physiological effects of moderate procedural sedation and analgesia.
- Pre-procedure patient assessment and preparation.
- Peri-procedure monitoring and management of patients receiving moderate procedural sedation and analgesia.
- Pharmacology of analgesics, sedatives and antagonists used for moderate sedation of adult and pediatric patients.
- Post-procedure management and discharge of patients who received moderate sedation and analgesia.
