The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health similarly has had
difficulties with the SIGN paediatric sedation guidelines and has amended
some of them with the correct level of evidence pertaining to quoted papers.
I will send a copy to the clinical effectiveness committee
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Sent: 02/10/2002 19:17
Subject: Re: SIGN guidelines
The Clinical Effectiveness Committee at the BAEM is currently producing
guidelines for paediatric sedation. Several of the members of this forum
have been good enough to send me references they have dragged up during
their clinical reviews or presentations and papers.
The only reason that they have not been published is a mixture of time
and
lethargy but it is going on slowly.
So what does one do about those appalling guidelines? What weight do
they
>carry? Will the Faculty issue a position statement or guidelines of its
own
>(based on the actual evidence, which SIGN doesn't seem to have used) to
>protect those of its members and fellows who sedate children in their
>departments? Or do we just take it lying down and let others decide our
>practice, as if we don't have a specialty of our own?
>
>Cliff
>
>
>>ps I apologise on behalf on Scotland for the SIGN guidelines on
sedation
>>for
>>procedures in children, we were absolutely horrified when we saw them.
The
>>rest of the SIGN guidelines are excellent and don't let this put you
off.
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