Critical Care Medicine Department: Sedation and Procedure Service
About the Sedation and Procedure Service
The Critical Care Medicine Department Sedation and Procedure Service is a patient-oriented service that provides sedation to children of all ages during a potentially uncomfortable or painful procedure.
To ensure a comfortable and pain free procedure, we provide patients with a combination of different sedatives, analgesics, and anesthetics such as midazolam, fentanyl, and ketamine.
Sedation services are provided in the 3SW-N Unit.
Back to top
Procedures
The most common procedures performed with sedation are:
- bone biopsy
- bone marrow aspiration and biopsy bronchoscopy
- central line placement
- chest tube removal
- endoscopy
- liver biopsy
- lumbar puncture
- PICC line placement
Back to top
Requirements
The following are necessary for patients undergoing a procedure that requires sedation:
- NPO in accordance with the Clinical Center administrative guidelines
- laboratory data (CBC, acute care panel, PTT, PT) within 7 days of the procedure
- IV access established
Back to top
Hours of Operation
The service operates adjacent to the Intensive Care Unit.
The clinical service hours are from 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. We also provide 24-hour on-call services for emergency cases.
Back to top
How to reach us
You may reach the service Monday through Friday for scheduling or questions/concerns at (301) 451-0336.
During off hours, weekends and holidays, please call the page operator at (301) 496-1211 and ask for the “VAD/Procedure” person on-call.
Back to top
This information is prepared specifically for caregivers involved in clinical research at the NIH Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health.
