A Sedation Course and Curriculum for Operating Room Nurses

evaluation of the curriculum for undergraduate course of operating room in international level and suggesting an appropriate curriculum for iran

background: the objectives of an educational system in a society are based on society's requirements. since personnel knowledge and skill are not qualified with the advantages of science and invention of new tools, new needs are arisen. comparing the curriculum of undergraduate course of operating room of our country with international societies, it seems that this curriculum is not a good one ...

Pediatric sedation/anesthesia outside the operating room.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The demand of procedures performed on children outside the operating room setting often exceeds the capacity of anesthesia services. The number of children requiring sedation outside the traditional operating room is rapidly approaching the number of children requiring anesthesia in the operating room. We address some of the major issues and controversies in this continuously ...

Pediatric sedation outside the operating room.

The practice of medicine is evolving as health care is impacted by technological innovation, which has allowed the development of multiple invasive and noninvasive pediatric procedures and imaging modalities. This clinical demand has resulted in tremendous growth in procedural sedation (PS) in children. PS is defined as the use of sedative, analgesic, or dissociative drugs to provide anxiolysis...

A succession plan is needed for operating room nurses.

Sedation Practice Outside the Operating Room for Pediatric Gastrointestinal Endoscopy.

Medical records of the 575 children who underwent gastrointestinal endoscopy outside the operating room were investigated retrospectively. The most frequently used combinations were propofol-midazolam-fentanyl in 83.2% of the procedures and propofol-midazolam in 13.8% of the procedures. 24 (3.4%) of 703 procedures had complications due to sedation anesthesia; 11 had hypoxia and 8 had pain in th...