Introduction — This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.
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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Procedural sedation in adults".)
International
●International Committee for the Advancement of Procedural Sedation: An international multidisciplinary consensus statement on fasting before procedural sedation in adults and children (2020)
Canada
●Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS): Position statement – Recommendations for procedural sedation in infants, children, and adolescents (2021)
●CPS: Position statement for managing pain and distress in children undergoing brief diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (2019)
United States
●American College of Radiology (ACR)–Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR): Practice parameter for minimal and/or moderate sedation/analgesia (revised 2020)
●American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD): Guidelines for monitoring and management of pediatric patients before, during, and after sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (2019)
●American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP): Unscheduled procedural sedation − A multidisciplinary consensus practice guideline (2018)
●American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA), American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS), ACR, American Dental Association (ADA), American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists (ASDA), and SIR: Practice guidelines for moderate procedural sedation and analgesia (2018)
●American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE): Guideline on modifications in endoscopic practice for pediatric patients (2014)
United Kingdom
●Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AOMRC): Safe sedation practice for healthcare procedures – An update (2021)
●Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland (AAGBI): Recommendations for standards of monitoring during anaesthesia and recovery (2021)
●Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM): Best practice guideline for ketamine procedural sedation for children in the emergency department (revised 2020)
●RCEM: Best practice guideline for pharmacological agents for procedural sedation and analgesia in the emergency department (revised 2020)
●Royal College of Radiologists (RCR): Sedation, analgesia, and anaesthesia in the radiology department, 2nd edition (2018)
●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Clinical guideline on sedation in under 19s − Using sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (2010)
●Royal College of Physicians (RCP): Sedation in children and young people – Sedation for diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in children and young people (2010)
Australia–New Zealand
●Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA): Guidelines on sedation and/or analgesia for diagnostic and interventional medical, dental or surgical procedures (2014)
