Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 454-459 , November 2004

Preprocedural fasting and adverse events in procedural sedation and analgesia in a pediatric emergency department: Are they related?

Received 31 October 2003 ,Revised 4 March 2004 ,Accepted 9 March 2004.

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 Author contributions: MGR, JEW, LB, and JB conceived the study. MGR, JEW, and LB oversaw data collection. LB provided statistical advice on study design and analyzed the data. MGR drafted the manuscript, and all authors contributed substantially to its revision. MGR takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.Presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting, Seattle, WA, May 2003.The authors report this study did not receive any outside funding or support.Reprints not available from the authors.

PII: S0196-0644(04)00282-3

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2004.03.015

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 44, Issue 5 , Pages 454-459 , November 2004

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