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Improving the Safety of Pediatric Sedation: Human Error, Technology, and Clinical Microsystems

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Recent years have seen significant improvements in the safety of many areas of health care. However, evidence would suggest that the practice of pediatric sedation outside of the operating room is an area where unaddressed complexities and risks in care remain. In addition, the number of children receiving sedation outside of the operating room is on the increase, emphasizing the need to realize opportunities to improve safety. We outline the risks inherent in sedating children in the context of both the human factors and system factors perspectives. We incorporate examples from other high-technology industries such as aviation and nuclear power generation to allow a better understanding of why things go wrong during sedation and how safety can be monitored and improved. The value of prior risk assessment, communication, checklists, and formalized recovery pathways is discussed, and new directions for the development of safety initiatives are identified. Finally a number of practical steps based on existing successful safety approaches are given, with an emphasis on the demonstration of efficacy and the sharing of successful safety solutions.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Dr. Karen Domino, Dr. Karen Posner, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists Closed Claims Project for supplying the data in Table 38.4.

Authors Craig S. Webster, Michael Stabile, and Alan F. Merry own shares in Safer Sleep Limited, a company that aims to improve safety in medicine. Alan F. Merry founded and is a director of Safer Sleep Limited.

Alan F. Merry was the Foundation Chair of the Board of the Health Quality and Safety Commission in New Zealand. He is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, which includes the Simulation Centre for Patient Safety (in which some of the research referenced in this chapter was conducted). He was the anesthesia lead for the development of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist.

The remaining authors have no competing interests to declare.

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    Michael J. Stabile

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Webster, C.S., Anderson, B.J., Stabile, M.J., Mitchell, S., Harris, R., Merry, A.F. (2021). Improving the Safety of Pediatric Sedation: Human Error, Technology, and Clinical Microsystems. In: Mason, MD, K.P. (eds) Pediatric Sedation Outside of the Operating Room. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58406-1_38

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