PEDIATRICS Vol. 108 No. 3 September 2001, pp. 817-817
Concerns/Questions About Sedation and Computed Tomography Scans
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To the Editor.
We offer our comments regarding the article "Rectal Methohexital Sedation for Computed Tomography Imaging of Stable Pediatric Emergency Department Patients" published in Pediatrics.1
In the "Methods" section, the exclusion criteria include patients
with altered mental status. However, in the "Results" section we
read that "the most common indication for computed




