Children’s Emergency

Rate of respiratory adverse events during procedural sedation

CE performs about 800 procedures per year requiring sedation. The rate of respiratory adverse events during procedural sedation is tracked as a clinical indictor against a published benchmark of 3.9%.
Benchmark: 3.9% respiratory AE- Green et al. Predictors of Airway and Respiratory Adverse Events With Ketamine Sedation in the Emergency Department: An Individual- Patient Data Meta-analysis of 8,282 Children. Ann Emerg Med. 2009;54:158-168.