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We measured the association of covariates, including provider subspecialty and patient age, sex, race and ethnicity, insurance status, time and day, laceration characteristics, mechanism, and layers of repair in a multivariate analysis and multinomial logistic regression.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We identified 4943 patient visits, with 3859 (78.8%) laceration repairs performed by emergency medicine providers and 1084 (21.9%) performed by plastic surgery. Procedural sedation was used in 373 (7.6%) visits. Lacerations repaired by plastic surgery were 25 times more likely to involve procedural sedation compared with those repaired by emergency medicine providers [adjusted odds ratio (aOR): 25.0, 95% CI: 17.1-36.5]. Additional factors included: laceration length (\u22655 vs. &lt;2.5\u00a0cm, aOR: 3.87, 95% CI: 1.88, 7.94), laceration complexity (complex vs. simple aOR: 2.50, 95% CI: 1.75, 3.57), and time of presentation (overnight vs. day, aOR: 2.58, 95% CI: 1.36, 4.91).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Provider specialty was the strongest independent predictor of procedural sedation use, even after adjustment for wound characteristics. These findings highlight substantial practice variation and suggest an opportunity to develop standardized, clinically driven approaches to sedation decision-making for pediatric facial lacerations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1097\/pec.0000000000003628","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,18]],"date-time":"2026-05-18T07:00:09Z","timestamp":1779087609000},"page":"743-749","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1097\/lww.0000000000001000","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Factors Associated With Use of Procedural Sedation in Pediatric Facial Laceration Repair in the Emergency Department"],"prefix":"10.1097","volume":"42","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0004-0937-3919","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Isabella G.","family":"Steidley","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"David","family":"Mills","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth","family":"Waltman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UMass Chan Medical School, Worcester"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael C.","family":"Monuteaux","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Todd","family":"Lyons","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston"},{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrew","family":"Miller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital"},{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston"},{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chris A.","family":"Rees","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine"},{"name":"Children\u2019s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Assaf","family":"Landschaft","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children\u2019s Hospital"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amanda","family":"Stewart","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children\u2019s National Hospital"},{"name":"The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eric W.","family":"Fleegler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston"},{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA"},{"name":"Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Amir","family":"Kimia","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center, Hartford, CT"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"276","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,5,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"R1-20260930","first-page":"162","article-title":"Management of complex facial lacerations in the emergency department","volume":"1","author":"Badeau","year":"2017","journal-title":"Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med"},{"key":"R2-20260930","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"183","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajem.2005.08.021","article-title":"National trends in ED lacerations between 1992 and 2002","volume":"24","author":"Singer","year":"2006","journal-title":"Am J Emerg Med"},{"key":"R3-20260930","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"685","DOI":"10.1097\/PEC.0000000000002901","article-title":"Intranasal dexmedetomidine use in pediatric patients for anxiolysis in the emergency department","volume":"39","author":"Kenneally","year":"2023","journal-title":"Pediatr Emerg Care"},{"key":"R4-20260930","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1799","DOI":"10.1007\/s00431-021-03930-6","article-title":"Pediatric Emergency Medicine Comfort and Analgesia Research in Europe (PemCARE) group of the Research in European Pediatric Emergency Medicine. 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