Academic and Research Skills
Critical Care
Emergency Medicine
General Pediatrics
Hospital Medicine
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Sedation Medicine
Daniel Tsze, MD, MPH (he/him/his)
Professor of Pediatrics in Emergency Medicine
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York, New York, United States
Session
Description: The provision of safe and effective sedation is an integral part of providing care for children who require medical procedures or testing that otherwise could not be achieved. The majority of research and innovation has focused on the medications and strategies used to sedate the child and optimize the period of sedation. However, an important but oft neglected aspect of the overall sedation encounter is the pre-procedural anxiety experienced by the child and the child’s caregivers. Studies have shown that high levels of pre-procedural anxiety impact how sedation is provided and are associated with clinically important outcomes that include both adequacy of sedation and adverse psychological and somatic outcomes that persist beyond the sedation event. An international multidisciplinary panel of pediatric experts will detail the short and long-term consequences of poorly managed pre-procedural anxiety in children. They will discuss practical strategies and a holistic approach to address both patient and parental anxiety, as well as promising novel endeavors and potential paradigm shifts in practice that warrant consideration and future research.
Speaker: Maala Bhatt, MD, MSc. (she/her/hers) – University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
Speaker: Daniel Tsze, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Speaker: Hilary Woodward, MS CCLS (she/her/hers) – NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Speaker: Vanessa Olbrecht, MD, MBA, FASA (she/her/hers) – Nemours Children's Hospital