Our hospital has a sedation service and the problems we get called for time and again are for inability to sedate (they give the standard meds in the usual doses and the kid is not sedated enough and will likely not be sedated without dangerously large doses therefore needing conversion to GA or wake up and reschedule) and lost airways 2/2 obstruction and/or laryngospasm. Those can be pretty scary and we're trying to work with them on that. They are very reluctant to give Succs, even though it's the obvious answer.
Fortunately we have a good relationship with the ED guys and we help them with the L1 traumas and known or difficult appearing airways. We manage the sedation service's credentialing but the ED has their own standards. That's fine with me. We definitely can't support all the sedation they do for CTs, Appy MRs, lacs, splinting, etc. We'd care more I imagine if they had to call for help often, but they don't.
At one of my old jobs the ED guys had vastly different comfort and experience with sedation for procedures and that was painful. One guy is essentially doing GA with an unsecured airway and the next one won't even attempt glyco and a litttle ketamine for a stable older kid to put on a cast. If it needed more than that, they got a GA when my schedule allowed. That ER sedation was a pain in the ass, trust me, you don't want those calls. One dude didn't even want to do normal semi urgent airways, he'd call me. I was so happy to be in the OR. The experience, confidence, and level of laziness are very wide out in the more rural places.
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Il Destriero