The impact of obesity on pediatric procedural sedation-related outcomes: results from the Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium

Summary Objectives To evaluate the impact of obesity on adverse events and required interventions during pediatric procedural sedation. Methods The Pediatric Sedation Research Consortium database of prospectively collected procedural sedation encounters was queried to identify patients for whom body mass index (BMI) could be calculated. Obesity was defined as BMI ≥95th percentile for age and gender. Sedation‐related outcomes, adverse events, and therapeutic interventions were compared between obese and nonobese patients. Results For analysis, 28 792 records were eligible. A total of 5 153 patients (17.9%) were obese; they were predominantly male and older and had a higher median American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status classification (P