Society for Pediatric Sedation (SPS) Podcast

Today's sedation podcast is dedicated to discussing how to start a nitrous oxide service. I am delighted to be joined by Mary Kay Ferrell and Laura Mitchell. Mary Kay, a clinical sedation and procedural nurse at the Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, who also has over 20 years of experience as a clinical educator for sedation and procedural services. She is a top national expert on the use of nitrous oxide in pediatric sedation, and how to start a nitrous oxide service. She is...

In this episode, we will be welcoming Dr. Maala Bhatt, the Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Ottawa. She is the Research Director for the Division of Emergency Medicine and a pediatric emergency medicine physician at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO). She is a member of the Society for Pediatric Sedation. She led the development of the first standardized definitions for procedural sedation and has published the largest emergency department procedural...

In this episode, we will be welcoming Dr. Kevin Couloures, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Stanford University and a pediatric critical care physician at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the California Pacific Medical Center in California. He has been with the Society for Pediatric Sedation for maNy years and is currently the vice-chair for the research committee and the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium, the research arm of the Society for Pediatric...

In this episode, we will be welcoming Dr. Mary Landrigan-Ossar, a Senior Associate in Perioperative Anesthesia, Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital. Dr. Landrigan is also an Assistant Professor of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School. She has been involved with the Society for Pediatric Sedation for a long time and serves on the executive committee as well as the board of directors. Dr. Landrigan comes on to help us gather insight on...

In this episode, we will be welcoming Dr. Megan Peters and Dr. Abdallah Dalabih to have a chat with us about how to develop a sedation regimen for patients undergoing procedural sedation outside the operating room. Dr. Peters is the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She is a pediatric intensivist and the Director of Pediatric Sedation Program at American Family Children’s Hospital. Dr. Dalabih is the Associate Professor of...

In this first episode of the Society for Pediatric Sedation (SPS) Podcast, we will be discussing the use of intranasal medication in procedural sedation for children. We will be joined by Dr. Carmen Sulton, the Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and Director of Children Sedation Services at Egleston campus in Atlanta. Dr. Sulton is well published in the field of pediatric procedural sedation including a recent paper on the use of intranasal...