>>13556506Takes too long; you're not gonna sit there for an hour or two waiting for oral benzos to kick in if you've got a 12 year old with appendicitis(and neither does the surgeon or the rest of the team want to waste time waiting)
I guess there are still other options, like say an IM sedative first, but I never really thought about it since I'm an adult anesthesiologist myself; every pediatric one does as I've described above, however
