Pediatric procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency setting in community hospitals in Italy: current status and challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We investigated the use of mild procedural sedation/analgesia in children at community hospitals to describe current practices and identify challenges to its effective implementation.

Methods

Cross-sectional survey among all medical and nursing staff of the Paediatric, Emergency, Anesthesiology and Surgical Units of four secondary care hospitals in Italy, in the years 2021-2022.

Results

The response rate was 80% (range across centers 57%-100%); 346 complete questionnaires were analyzed (52.6% physicians; 47.4% nurses). Overall, procedural pain in children was considered a relevant topic by 90.8% of staff. Procedural sedation/analgesia was considered helpful for procedural success (97.4%) and for improving children's experience of pain/anxiety (98.6%). Howev

SUBMITTER: Langeli M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12838452 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature