This was a retrospective, multicenter cross-sectional study of pediatric sedations over 3 years using the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium database.
85,599 pediatric sedations were included. These sedations did include the operating rooms.
8.7% of sedations required an intervention for airway/breathing/circulation in patients who did NOT have procedural oxygenation while 10.1% of patients in the group that did have procedural oxygenation required an intervention. The majority of these interventions were minor, ie airway repositioning. The group that did have procedural oxygenation did have a lower rate of hypoxia compared to the group without procedural oxygenation (2.5% vs 4.5%).
The authors concluded that preemptive procedural oxygenation did NOT decrease the overall need for interventions in the ABCs compared to no procedural oxygenation.
References
Li J, Krauss B, Monuteaux MC, Cavallaro S, Fleegler E. Preprocedural Oxygenation and Procedural Oxygenation During Pediatric Procedural Sedation: Patterns of Use and Association With Interventions. Ann Emerg Med. Published online June 12, 2024. doi:10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.04.014
