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Conditions
Brief summary
Procedural sedation to facilitate painful and non-painful procedures is a core skill of specialist emergency physicians (EPs) in Australasia. Our goal is to establish a national procedural sedation dataset to monitor practice for trends in techniques and safety on a large scale over time. This will collect data on current practices around procedural sedation, including patient selection and optimisation, staffing, medication use, monitoring modalities and rates of procedural success and sedation complications. We hope that this database will form fertile ground for the exploration of future research hypotheses.
Interventions
We will record the indication for procedural sedation, the type of staff present and their roles, patient predicted markers of complexity, techniques (including medications, doses, monitoring and pre-oxygenation) and the occurrence of any complications prior to discharge from the emergency department. The study requires no active participation from patients, instead capturing data on current clinical practice via direct entry by clinicians into an electronic database. We aim to collect data for
We will record the indication for procedural sedation, the type of staff present and their roles, patient predicted markers of complexity, techniques (including medications, doses, monitoring and pre-oxygenation) and the occurrence of any complications prior to discharge from the emergency department. The study requires no active participation from patients, instead capturing data on current clinical practice via direct entry by clinicians into an electronic database. We aim to collect data for one year for initial evaluation with the goal of continuing on an ongoing basis.
Sponsors
Ashley Loughman
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
All patients undergoing procedural sedation within Australian Emergency Departments on an ongoing basis
Exclusion criteria
No specific exclusion criteria
Outcome results
None listed