Effect of a Sedation Weaning Protocol on Safety and Medication Use among Hospitalized Children Post Critical Illness.

Background: Best practice guidelines for the safe and compassionate care of critically ill children necessitates the use of sedation to ensure adequate ventilation, patient safety and comfort. Prolonged use of sedation can result in tolerance, physical dependence and iatrogenic withdrawal syndrome if medications are weaned too quickly.

Problem: In the context of medication errors related to parent administration of outpatient sedation weans, we set out to improve the safety of children weaning from sedatives.

CE: Original Research: Pain in Nonverbal Children with Medical Complexity: A Two-Year Retrospective Study.

Unlabelled: : Purpose: Children with medical complexity experience frequent pain. But it can be challenging to recognize unexpected behaviors as pain related, especially in the absence of self-report. Often these children undergo extensive workups aimed at diagnosing the sources of pain.