Procedural sedation and analgesia in pediatric diagnostic and interventional radiology: An expert DELPHI consensus document developed by the ITALIAN scientific society of anesthesia, analgesia, resuscitation and intensive care (SIAARTI).

Background: Children undergoing diagnostic and interventional radiology procedures often require sedation to achieve immobility and analgesia if the procedure is painful. In the past decades, leading scientific organizations have developed evidence-based guidelines for procedural sedation and analgesia in children outside of the operating room. Their recommendations are being applied to procedural sedation in radiology.

Perioperative management of circumcision in children: Is there a difference between African and European hospitals?

Context: The circumcision is the most frequent procedure in paediatric surgery worldwide, performed for medical and ritual purposes. In developing countries, because of the difficult accessibility to healthcare, even a common procedure could be unsafe.

Aims: The aim of the article is to compare the perioperative and anaesthesiological management of circumcision in children between two Italian and two sub-Saharan African hospitals.