Pediatric Sedation/PICC Line Service
309-655-3487
What is Pediatric Sedation?
Procedural sedation is the use of medications to help a child relax or sleep during a procedure. This is important since children are sometimes unable to tolerate certain tests or procedures while they are fully awake. Our goals are to manage anxiety and stress related to a procedure, minimize pain and provide ideal procedural conditions, so that your child’s procedure can be successfully completed with comfort and safety.
Procedures that May Require Sedation
Sedation may be needed for any test or procedure that is anxiety-producing, painful or requires a child to hold still in a particular position. Some tests or procedures may take a few minutes while some may take longer. We provide sedation for inpatient and outpatient settings.
Common procedures requiring Sedation Include:
- Aspirations andbiopsies
- Bone marrow aspirations
- Bone scans
- Botulism toxin muscle injections
- CT scans
- Echocardiograph
- EEG
- Hearing evaluations (auditory brainstem response)
- Interventional radiology procedures
- Liver and kidney biopsies
- Lumbar punctures
- MIBG scan
- MRI scans
- PET scans
- PICC line placements
- Radiation treatments
- Renal nuclear medicine imaging
- Surgical dressing changes
- Voiding cystourethrography (VCUG)
Our Program
Our pediatric sedation service has been serving children since 1999. Our team includes highly trained pediatric hospitalists, pediatric intensivists and nurses who work closely with families to determine the most appropriate sedation plan for their child. Some of our nurses have advanced training for the placement of pediatric PICC lines.
We are gold members in the Society for Pediatric Sedation (SPS) and the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium. The SPS strives to be the international leader in the advancement of pediatric sedation by promoting safe, high quality care, innovative research and quality professional education.
Our Team
Medical Director:
Keith Hanson, MD, PhD
Nursing Leadership
Kimberly Horack, RN - Clinical Coordinator
Tiffany Klein, RN - Clinic Manager
Office Coordinator:
Donna Bronson
Pediatric Sedation Doctors
Michele Beekman, MD
Jim Crooks, MD
Jonathan Gehlbach, MD
Keith Hanson, MD
Ali Haroon, MD
Nabil Hassan, MD
Umair Iqbal, MD
Harleena Kendhari, MD
Ed Martinez, MD
Meghana Nadiger, MD
Nadia Shaikh, MD
Prachi Syngal, MD
Sandeep Tripathi, MD
Billy Wang, MD
Nursing Team
Kim Camp, RN
Annette Fehr, RN
Ellen Mathewson, RN
Taylor O'Neill, RN
Keith Tarrant, RN
Preparing for the procedure
- Your doctor will order your test. If it is ordered with sedation, our scheduling department will call you to arrange your appointment time and date.
- After you schedule an appointment, we will call you to complete the sedation screening, answer questions and provide fasting instructions for your child.
- 在每次手术或镇静服务之前，我们的护理团队会检查您孩子的健康记录，并与您的家人一起确定适合您孩子镇静的方案。
Day of the procedure
- Most pediatric patients are asked to arrive 1 ½ hours prior to procedure time.
- If an IV is needed, we will place a numbing cream on the appropriate body site(s).
- Sedation is given through an IV, mouth, nasal spray or an inhaled gas (laughing gas). Sometimes your child may receive a combination of these. This will be discussed in the sedation screening phone call prior to the procedure date and on the day of the procedure.
- 与家人一起检查病史。
- 对于某些手术，在整个手术过程中，父母可以和孩子在一起。如果家长不能留下来，团队会在孩子睡着后，在手术或测试之前，引导你到等候区。
After the procedure:
- Children can drink fluids and eat after waking up. You may bring your child’s favorite food or snack with you to the appointment. We also have age-appropriate snacks available. If your child is nursing or drinking formula, please bring your own bottles and formula.
- Once your child has been awake for at least 30 minutes and able to eat and drink, he or she may leave the sedation clinic with their parents or guardian.
- Further instructions will be given from the nurse upon discharge for returning to activities. Most children can attend school the next day.
Health problems that may require general anesthesia instead of sedation:
- Sleep apnea or central apnea
- Facial condition that distorts the airway
- Uncontrolled seizures
- Complex congenital heart disease or heart failure
- Increased pressure on the brain
Reasons to reschedule or cancel a procedure
Sedation may not be performed if your child is sick with a cough, cold, fever or vomiting. If this occurs, please call our sedation team to inform the providers and discuss the care plan at (309) 655-3487.