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We hypothesized that RA has a safety profile that is equal or superior to PPS as well as a shorter duration of treatment in the PED.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Methods<\/jats:title>\n Pediatric emergency department encounters in patients presenting with a diagnosis of radius fracture, ulna fracture, distal \u201cboth-bone\u201d fracture, Monteggia fracture, and\/or Galeazzi fracture were included. Outcomes of interest included patient adverse events (AEs), sedation medications used, PED duration of treatment (arrival time to disposition time), sedation failures, and reduction failures.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Results<\/jats:title>\n \n Propensity matching was performed resulting in 632 well-matched RA-PPS pairs. The PPS cohort had 13% of encounters with at least 1 AE compared with 0.2% in the RA cohort,\n P<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.001. The most common AE in the PPS group was hypoxia (9.8%), and the only AE in the RA group was an intravenous infiltrate (0.16%). Within the matched cohorts, PPS required more medications than RA (100% vs 60%,\n P<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.001). Ketamine alone was more commonly used in the PPS group than the RA group (86% vs 0.2%,\n P<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.001). Propofol was used only in the PPS group. The average duration of treatment was 205 (SD, 81) minutes in the PPS group and 178 (SD, 75) minutes in the RA group (\n P<\/jats:italic>\n < 0.001). There were no reduction failures in either group.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n Bier blocks and hematoma blocks are an acceptable alternative to PPS for children requiring forearm reductions. The AE rate is low and the reduction success rate is high. 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