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Conditions
Brief summary
Emergency Department Procedural Sedation is performed many times each day in Emergency Departments around the country. It is becoming an increasingly important skill in the practice of Emergency Medicine. It allows the performance of procedures (including reduction of fractures and dislocations, suturing of wounds, draining of abscesses etc) which in the absence of sedation would be painful and distressing for patients and or technically more difficult or impossible for Doctors. This sedation is increasingly valuable in health systems which demand more efficient use of resources. Effective, safe procedural sedation offers this by saving operating theatres (which are resource intensive) for more complicated procedures. This study aims to add to the current knowledge base by ongoing data collection on procedural sedation done in the Emergency Department. The actual procedural sedation for the patients in the study period will not be influenced by this study. This study will simply document techniques and outcomes of sedation which is done in the normal practice of Emergency Medicine at our Hospital. Complications of the sedation and the procedure will be recorded.
Interventions
Procedural sedation in the ED, All procedures involving sedation which occur in the ED during the study period, will be observed by study staff and complications monitored as they occur. Participants will also then be contacted by telephone 1-6 weeks post sedative episode to assess any further complications which occurred following discharge. Patients are observed for the duration of the ED sedative episode, generally 45 minutes or thereabouts, for the recovery period (generally 1 hour), and a
Procedural sedation in the ED, All procedures involving sedation which occur in the ED during the study period, will be observed by study staff and complications monitored as they occur. Participants will also then be contacted by telephone 1-6 weeks post sedative episode to assess any further complications which occurred following discharge. Patients are observed for the duration of the ED sedative episode, generally 45 minutes or thereabouts, for the recovery period (generally 1 hour), and as well will be followed up by phone between 1 and 6 weeks post discharge from the ED. Patients who are unable to be contacted during this 1-6 week time frame will have phone contact attempts made for up to 3 months. After this point, if still uncontactable, patients willbe deemed lost to follow-up
Sponsors
Dr Adam Michael
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
6 Months to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
patients requiring procedural sedation in ED
Exclusion criteria
Unable to consent to data collection and follow-up Unwilling to consent to data collection and follow-up Senior clinician must be present in the ED to oversee sedation
Outcome results
None listed