Academic and Research Skills
Critical Care
Emergency Medicine
Hospital Medicine
Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Sedation Medicine
Maala Bhatt, MD, MSc.
Associate Professor
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Session
Description: The provision of safe and effective sedation to children is an integral part of providing care for children who require medical procedures or testing that otherwise could not be achieved. However, the practice and study of sedation faces challenges that require timely and effective solutions. A multispecialty panel of internationally-recognized sedation researchers will address four pressing contemporary challenges and strategies for navigating them. These include, 1) "Answering the Unanswerable Questions", the importance of large database research to study rare but sentinel events; 2 ) "Moving Evidence to Practice", using the topic of pre-procedural fasting as a model case; 3) "First Do No Harm", a state-of-the art discussion regarding the potential neurotoxic effects caused by common sedatives when administered to infants and young children; and 4) "Moving Beyond 'Just Getting It Done'”, strategies for measuring and studying outcomes related to the quality of sedation that move beyond objective safety outcomes to incorporate a more comprehensive and patient-centered experience for children and families.
Speaker: Daniel S. Tsze, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Speaker: Vanessa A. Olbrecht, MD, MBA, FASA (she/her/hers) – Nationwide Children's Hospital
Speaker: Maala Bhatt, MD, MSc. – University of Ottawa
Speaker: Jurgen de Graaff, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Erasmus MC