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Agitation treatment for pediatric emergency patients.

There are no clear evidence-based guidelines for the management of agitated children in an emergency department (ED) setting. To assist our own ED’s agitation care, the authors developed an approach and general guideline based on a review of the existing literature and a review of expert opinions from both pediatric emergency medicine and child and adolescent psychiatric physicians at our tertiary medical center. This article presents our work in this area with a strong focus on medication use because we found this to be the area of greatest confusion and misunderstanding. Although the article’s focus is on EDs, we believe this can be a starting point for other hospital units that wish to codify their own best medication practices.