Use of dexmedetomidine for sedation of children hospitalized in the intensive care unit.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Dexmedetomidine is a potentially useful sedative for hospitalized children, but there is little published data regarding its safety, dosage, or efficacy. OBJECTIVE:To report our experience with dexmedetomidine for the sedation of hospitalized children. DESIGN:Retrospective case series. SETTING:Pediatric ICU of a university-affiliated children's hospital. PATIENTS:We retrospectively examined data from the medical records of all children who received dexmedetomidine for sedation between December 2003 and October 2005. INTERVENTION:None. RESULTS:Dexmedetomidine was administered 74 times to 60 children (median age 1.5 years, range 0.1-17.2 years). The most common indications for ICU admission were respiratory distress/failure (53%), status-postcorrective cardiac surgery (19%), and other postoperative patients (18%). In 53% of cases dexmedetomidine was used to supplement ongoing sedation judged inadequate and in 41% of cases it was used as a bridge to extubation while other sedatives were weaned or discontinued. Among all the children, the median dose to maintain adequate sedation was 0.7 microg/kg per hour (range 0.2-2.5 microg/kg per hour), with a median duration of therapy of 23 hours (range 3-451 hours). Most children (80%) experienced no adverse effects from the sedation, with hypotension (9%), hypertension (8%), and bradycardia (3%) the most common adverse events. For 93% of children who experienced a side effect, it resolved either without treatment or by withholding the infusion. CONCLUSIONS:In this cohort of children hospitalized in the ICU, dexmedetomidine appeared to be effective and to have few adverse effects. Dexmedetomidine may have a potentially useful role to play in sedating hospitalized children.

journal_name

J Hosp Med

authors

Carroll CL,Krieger D,Campbell M,Fisher DG,Comeau LL,Zucker AR

doi

10.1002/jhm.282

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-03-01 00:00:00

pages

142-7

issue

2

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1553-5592

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1553-5606

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3

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