Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Describe the roles of the members of the health care team in their respective responsibilities for quality care.
2. Discuss usage of pharmacologic premedication in pediatric patients.
3. Review routes of delivery and their efficacy, tolerance, acceptance and safety.
4. Review sedation agents commonly utilized in pediatric patients.
5. Review pharmacology of dexmedetomidine.
6. Highlight current research on nebulized medications.
7. Identify scope for future investigation of nebulized premedication.

Faculty

Nishkruti Munshi, MD
Staff Anesthesiologist
University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate
Physician
Baystate Medical Center 

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.