SASA paediatric guidelines for the safe use of procedural sedation and analgesia for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children: 2021–2026

All healthcare professionals involved in the administration of sedation and participating assessment, monitoring recovery children requiring procedural analgesia (PSA) are accountable for safe practice. The child is entitled to same standard care, whether procedure undertaken outside hospital (primary care), a physician’s office, dental surgery, remote facility or an operating theatre. new guidelines replace SASA Paediatric Sedation Guidelines 2016, use diagnostic therapeutic procedures children.