ACEP Approves Consensus Guidelines on Unscheduled Procedural Sedation

The American College of Emergency Physicians has approved Part 2 of its Multidisciplinary Delphi Consensus Guidelines on Unscheduled Procedural Sedation, covering clinical practice, with approval by the ACEP Board of Directors dated April 29, 2026. The source text notes that ACEP policy statements and clinical policies are official ACEP positions that are not subject to the same peer review process as journal articles and do not necessarily reflect the views of Annals of Emergency Medicine or its editors.

Most relevant for: Clinicians who perform unscheduled procedural sedation, such as in emergency department settings.

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