To the Editor: About 300 000 episodes of procedural sedation occur annually in New South Wales public hospitals. Much of this sedation is supervised by non-anaesthetists.
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- 1. Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists Faculty of Pain Medicine. Guidelines on sedation and/or analgesia for diagnostic and interventional medical, dental or surgical procedures. Policy statement PS09. Melbourne: ANZCA, 2014. http://www.anzca.edu.au/resources/professional-documents/pdfs/ps09-2010-guidelines-on-sedation-and-or-analgesia-for-diagnostic-and-interventional-medical-dental-or-surgical-procedures.pdf (accessed Jul 2014).
- 2. New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation. Safe sedation resources. http://www.aci.health.nsw.gov.au/resources/clinician-resources/safe-sedation-resources (accessed Jul 2014).
- 3. Conway A, Rolley J, Page K, Fulbrook P. Trends in nurse-administered procedural sedation and analgesia across cardiac catheterisation laboratories in Australia and New Zealand: results of an electronic survey. Aust Crit Care 2014; 27: 4-10.
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We thank the clinicians and managers from numerous hospitals and departments for their assistance and expertise, and the members of the minimum standards working group, whose concern for patient safety was demonstrated by their support for the project.
Joanna Sutherland was a member of a working group that recently revised PS09.