Conscious Sedation in Dentistry - SDCEP

1 Conscious Sedation in Dentistry Guidance Development Methodology June 2017 Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme Dundee Dental Education Centre, Frankland Building, Small s Wynd, Dundee DD1 4HN Email Tel 01382 740992/425751 Website An accessible version of this document can be made available on request NICE has accredited the process used by the Scottish Dental Clinical Effectiveness Programme to produce its Conscious Sedation in Dentistry guidance. Accreditation is valid for 5 years from 15 March 2016.

2 More information on accreditation can be viewed at For further information about SDCEP s accreditation, visit SDCEP Conscious Sedation in Dentistry Guidance Development Methodology 1 Contents 1 Overview of the SDCEP Guidance Development Process .. 3 2 The Guidance Development Group .. 4 3 Scoping Research .. 5 4 Clinical Questions .. 5 5 Literature Search .. 7 6 Evidence Appraisal and Synthesis .. 8 7 Considered Judgements and Development of Recommendations.

3 9 8 Consultation and Peer Review .. 10 9 Updating guidance .. 11 10 Conflicts of Interest .. 11 11 Equality Impact Assessment for the Guidance .. 12 12 Acknowledgements .. 13 Appendix 1 Scoping Report .. 14 Scoping Report May 2016 .. 14 Scoping Report Update May 2017 .. 18 Appendix 2 Evidence Searches .. 20 Appendix 3 - Summary of Guidelines and Systematic Reviews .. 30 Appendix 4 Evidence Appraisal Forms .. 34 Systematic Review SR1: Ashley et al., 2015 .. 34 Systematic Review SR2: Chen et al., 2015.

4 37 Systematic Review SR5: Louren o-Matharu et al., 2012 .. 41 Systematic Review SR6: Lyratzopoulos and Blain, 2003 .. 46 Systematic Review SR7: Papineni McIntosh et al., 2015 .. 51 Systematic Review SR8: Papineni et al., 2014 .. 56 Systematic Review SR9: Davies, 2015 .. 60 Guideline G1: Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC), 2013 .. 64 Guideline G2: American Dental Association (ADA), 2012a .. 69 Guideline G3: American Dental Association (ADA), 73 Guideline G5: Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA), 2014.

5 77 Guideline G6: Standing Committee on Sedation for Dentistry (SCSD), 2007 .. 82 Guideline G8: American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), 2013 .. 86 Guideline G10: American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), 2011 .. 90 Guideline G12: Glassman et al., 2009 .. 96 SDCEP Conscious Sedation in Dentistry Guidance Development Methodology 2 Guideline G13: Hosey, 2002 .. 101 Guideline G14: Intercollegiate Advisory Committee for Sedation in Dentistry (IACSD), 2015.

6 105 Guideline G15: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), 2010 .. 111 Guideline G16: Standing Dental Advisory Committee (SDAC), 2003 .. 118 Guideline G17: European Association of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD), 2003 .. 122 Appendix 5 Considered Judgement Forms .. 128 Preparation for Sedation (Clinical Questions ) .. 128 Conscious Sedation Techniques (Clinical Questions ) .. 167 Conscious Sedation for Children (Clinical Questions ) .. 181 Conscious Sedation for Adults and Children with Special Care Needs (Clinical Questions ).

7 193 Recovery and Discharge (Clinical Questions ) .. 200 Records and Documentation (Clinical Questions ) .. 210 Training (Clinical Question ).. 221 References .. 234 SDCEP Conscious Sedation in Dentistry Guidance Development Methodology 3 1 Overview of the SDCEP Guidance Development Process SDCEP first published Conscious Sedation in Dentistry in 2006 and a second edition of the guidance in 2012. In 2016, a Guidance Development Group (GDG) was convened to review and update the guidance in light of certain specific developments since 2012.

8 These include publication of: Safe Sedation Practice for Healthcare Procedures by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) (2013) and Standards for Conscious Sedation in the Provision of Dental Care: Report of the Intercollegiate Advisory Committee for Sedation in Dentistry (IACSD) (2015), and an evidence update for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Guideline: Sedation in Children and Young People (2012).1-3 In accordance with SDCEP s guidance development process, the review of this guidance involved also searching for other sources of information and evidence including guidelines and systematic reviews, and appraisal of all eligible sources to assess their quality and to inform their utility as the basis for recommendations within this guidance.

9 The guidance development process that SDCEP follows has been accredited by NICE (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; ) and is as described in the SDCEP Guidance Development Process Manual (Version , February 2016). The review of Conscious Sedation in Dentistry followed SDCEP s standard guidance development process as outlined below, with the exception of the first step (topic proposal and selection) which is not relevant for an update: Topic proposal and selection; GDG selection; Scoping including horizon scanning literature review and baseline research on stakeholder attitudes to the topic and proposed guidance; Agreement on scope and key clinical questions.

10 Preparation of draft guidance for consultation including: Systematic literature review, Evidence appraisal, synthesis and summary, Considered judgements, Formulating recommendations, Grading recommendations; Open consultation and peer review; Review of consultation feedback and revision of the guidance and other related products; Final draft sign off; Design for publication; Dissemination and Implementation. For further details of the standard process see the SDCEP Guidance Development Process Manual available at Consistent with SDCEP s standard guidance development methodology the update of Conscious Sedation in Dentistry aimed to be transparent.