In relation to being an EKG Technician, having an EKG Technician job or even attending to an EKG Technician Classes, not all patients require general anaesthesia or sedation; infants may leep through relatively long examinations, if the study is performed after feed and they are well wrapped up to keep them warm. Play therapy has been effective in persuading children over the age of 4 years to undergo RI without anaesthesia or sedation. Adults who suffer from severe anxiety or claustrophobia can be positioned prone in the magnet bore, reassured and if necessary counselled before anaesthesia or sedation is attempted.
Although many anaesthetists in UK choose anaesthesia to render small children immobile for radiological investigation, worldwide sedation is most commonly used. In children’s hospitals, multidisciplinary sedation teams have demonstrated excellent success rates and safety records for sedation for radiological procedures. What appears to be important is not the use of a specific sedative or regimen, but the presence of an organized team dedicated exclusively to pediatric sedation, which deals with relatively large numbers of patients.