Infusion and Sedation Center
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The Infusion and Sedation Center at Akron Children’s provides two distinct services. Our sedation services help children relax when they need to hold still for a test or procedure. Infusion is an outpatient procedure providing IV therapy for children and young adults to treat a variety of conditions.
Department: 330-543-1555
Brittany Potts, MD
Pediatric Hospitalist; Medical Director, Hospital Based Services; Associate Chair, Department of Pediatrics; Director, Pediatric Hospital Medicine Advanced Practice Providers
The Infusion Center offers a comfortable, convenient, patient-centered environment to receive intravenous infusions by specially-trained pediatric nurses. Infusion therapy is administered to pediatric patients who require one-time or ongoing IV therapy for a variety of acute and chronic illnesses. Some therapies available:
- Antibiotic therapy
- Biologics for treatment of arthritis and Gastrointestinal diseases
- Biosphosphonates (therapies to enhance bone density)
- Blood product transfusions
- Intramuscular and subcutaneous injections
- Iron therapy
- IV fluid hydration
- Immune globulins
- IV steroids
- Mediport maintenance
- Monitoring of first dose medications for patients at high risk due to allergies
Sedation is a safe way to keep children comfortable during a short, painful procedure or a long test that requires them to stay perfectly still. This includes:
- Radiology exams such as MRI, CAT scans, ultrasound, and nuclear medicine studies.
- Botox injections and nerve blocks to improve spasticity
- Lumbar punctures to collect and examine the fluid around the brain and spinal cord
- Biopsies to obtain tissue samples
- Hearing tests (brain stem evoked response tests)
- Removal of sutures or stitches
- Interventional radiology procedures
- Oncology procedures (bone marrow aspiration and biopsy)
- Dental procedures
- Joint injections
