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Contributor: Aaron Lessen, MD Educational Pearls: Recent study looking at a pediatric emergency department to determine what percentage of patients after intubation received sedation within 10 minutes after intubation About 25% of the patients in the study received sedation within 10 minutes after intubation Only 75% of the patients in the study received sedation in the ED at some point after intubation Those who received rocuronium were less likely to received sedation post-intubation References Berg K, Gregg V, Cosgrove P, Wilkinson M. The Administration of Postintubation Sedation in the Pediatric Emergency Department. Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021;37(11):e732-e735. doi:10.1097/PEC.0000000000001744 Summarized by John Spartz, MS4 | Edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD The Emergency Medical Minute is excited to announce that we are now offering AMA PRA Category 1 credits™ via online course modules. To access these and for more information, visit our website at https://emergencymedicalminute.org/cme-courses/ and create an account. Donate to EMM today!