how to cite this article: fallah r, ferdosian f, shajari a. non-parenteral medications for procedural sedation in children- a narrative review article. iran j child neurol. summer 2015;9(3):1-8. abstract procedural sedation may be needed in many diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children. to make pediatric procedural sedation as safe as possible, protocols should be developed by institut...

background: providing high-quality care in the intensive care units (icus) is a major goal of every medical system. nurses play a crucial role in achieving this goal. one of the most important responsibilities of nurses is sedation and pain control of patients. the present study tried to assess the effect of nurses’ practice of a sedation protocol on sedation and consciousness levels and the do...

a bstract background: mechanical ventilation is one of the supporting treatments that are used for different reasons. to reduce patients’ inconvenience caused due to using tracheal tube and ventilator, sedation is routinely used. using scales for the sedation, for example, richmond agitation sedation scale (rass), may reduce dose of sedation and length of mechanical ventilation.   materials and...

upper endoscopy is a common procedure for the diagnosis and treatment of upper digestive tract diseases. the increasing number of pediatric gastrointestinal procedures has led to increasing attention on the safety and efficacy of medications used for sedation during the procedure. this randomized blinded interventional study was designed to compare the effect of oral midazolam with intravenous ...

Dental fear and anxiety is a common problem in pediatric patients. There is considerable variation in techniques used to manage them. Various sedation techniques using many different anesthetic agents have gained considerable popularity over the past few years. Children are not little adults; they differ physically, psychologically, and emotionally. The purpose of this review is to survey recen...

TO THE EDITOR: We read with great interest the article by Quill and colleagues (1), which presented and discussed 3 categories of palliative sedation: ordinary sedation, proportionate palliative sedation (PPS), and palliative sedation to unconsciousness (PSU). One notion shared by these practices, and by all attempts to justify sedation, is that the degree of sedation should match the symptoms—...

how to cite this article: fallah r, fadavi n, behdad sh, fallah tafti m. efficacy of chloral hydrate-hydroxyzine and chloral hydrate-midazolam in pediatric magnetic resonance imaging sedation. iran j child neurol. 2014 spring 8(2):11-17. objective magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is a useful diagnostic tool for the evaluation of congenital or acquired brain lesions. but, in all of less than 8-y...

Paediatric sedation has expanded in volume and demand over the past decade. In parallel with the increasing demand for and delivery of sedation by multi-specialty providers, conflicting political agendas have surfaced. With a limited selection of sedatives and few new sedatives to market over the past decade, some providers utilize agents that formerly were considered exclusive for administrati...