title: Procedural sedation and analgesia for gastrointestinal endoscopy in infants and children: how, with what, and by whom?
abstract: Endoscopic procedures involving the gastrointestinal tract have been successfully developed in paediatric practice over the last two decades, improving both diagnosis and treatment in many children's gastrointestinal diseases. In this group of patients, experience and co-operation between paediatricians/endoscopists and paediatric anaesthesiologists should help to guarantee the quality and safety of a procedure and should additionally help to minimise the risk of adverse events which are greater the smaller the child is. This principle is more and more important especially since the announcement of the Helsinki Declaration on Patient Safety in Anaesthesiology in 2010, emphasising the role of anaesthesiology in promoting safe perioperative care. The Helsinki Declaration has been endorsed by all European anaesthesiology institutions as well as the World Health Organisation's 'Safe Surgery Saves Lives' initiative including the 'Surgical Safety Checklist'. Although most of these procedures could be performed by paediatricians under procedural sedation and analgesia, children with congenital defects and serious coexisting diseases (ASA ≥ III) as well as the usage of anaesthetics (e.g. propofol) must be managed by paediatric anaesthesiologists. We have reviewed the specific principles employed during qualification and performance of procedural sedation and analgesia for gastrointestinal endoscopy in paediatrics. We have also tried to answer the questions as to how, with what, and by whom, procedural sedation for gastrointestinal endoscopy in children should be performed.
authors.affiliation: asniatko@ump.edu.pl.
authors.forename: Alicja
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bartkowska-Śniatkowska
authors.forename: Jowita
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosada-Kurasińska
authors.forename: Marzena
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zielińska
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Grześkowiak
authors.forename: Agnieszka
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bienert
authors.forename: Ian A
authors.initials: IA
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Iwona
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ignyś
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000698:Analgesia / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D000758:Anesthesia / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects; D007223:Infant
chemical_list: D006993:Hypnotics and Sedatives