Supervise procedural sedation script
- introduce self
- check student's identity and level of experience
- ensure patient (if applicable) is safe in department
- set learning objectives
Before sedation - Right place - must be done in resus
- Right team
- Right monitoring
- Emergency equipment
- airway adjuncts, BVM/Mapleson C circuit
- Contraindications for sedating agent
- Choice of agent?
During sedation - IV access is mandatory
- Endpoint of sedation
- airway reflexes maintained
- spontaneously breathing
- verbal contact
After sedation
- safe discharge for patient - typically 90-120 min
- advice to patient - driving
- signpost to further learning
- invites questions
- global mark to examiner