PREDICT collaborates with NICS
NICS is delighted to to have the Paediatric Research in Emergency Department International Collaborative's (PREDICT) involvement with the emergency care pain initiative. In the first phase of the initiative, PREDICT will analyse organisational pain management policies and procedures and audit pain management practices in paediatric emergency departments.
PREDICT was established in 2004 to improve emergency care for children and adolescents through rigorous multi centre research. PREDICT is a part of the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Society (PEMS) – Australia and New Zealand (www.pems.org.au)
- More information e-mail Dr Franz Babl (Chairman)
Paediatric Procedural Sedation
The Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital and Sunshine Hospital have developed a program to educate and accredit emergency department staff in paediatric procedural sedation.
- Royal Children's Hospital procedural sedation teaching package
- Royal Children's Hospital clinical practice guideline
- Royal Children's Hospital fact sheet
Babl F, Priestley S, Krieser D et al. Development and implementation of an education and credentialing programme to provide safe paediatric procedural sedation in emergency departments Emerg Med Australas. 2006 Oct-Dec;18(5-6):489-97 (link to full paper)
Priestley S, Babl FE, Krieser D et al. Evaluation of the impact of a paediatric procedural sedation credentialing programme on quality of care. Emerg Med Australas. 2006 Oct-Dec;18(5-6):498-504 (link to abstract)
Babl FE, Munro J, Kainey G et al. Scope for improvement: hospital wide sedation practice at a children’s hospital. Arch Dis Child 2006 Aug;91(8):716-7 (link to extract)
Babl F, Barnett P, Palmer G et al. A pilot study of inhaled methoxyflurane for procedural analgesia in children. Pediatric Anesthesia 2007 17(2):148–153 (link to abstract)