The American journal of emergency medicine
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Multicenter Study
Intranasal ketamine for procedural sedation in children: An open-label multicenter clinical trial.
There are limited options for pain and distress management in children undergoing minor procedures, without the burden of an intravenous line insertion. Prior to this study, we conducted a dose-escalation study and identified 6 mg/kg as a potentially optimal initial dose of intranasal ketamine. ⋯ ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03053947).
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Conceptually, inpatient boarding is a result in the delay of admitting patients from the Emergency Department (ED) to inpatient units, but there is no consistent definition across academic EDs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the definition of boarding across academic EDs, and to identify mitigation strategies used by EDs to alleviate crowd management. ⋯ We found that definitions for boarding varied widely. Inpatient boarding has serious consequences to patient care and well-being, suggesting the need for standardized definitions to describe inpatient boarding.