Review on sedation for gastrointestinal tract endoscopy in children by non-anesthesiologists

Table 5 American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status classification[24]

Class	Description	Suitability for sedation
Class I	A normally healthy patient	Excellent
Class II	A patient with mild systemic disease (e.g., controlled asthma)	Generally good
Class III	A patient with severe systemic disease (e.g., a child who is actively wheezing)	Intermediate to poor
Class IV	A patient with severe systemic disease that is a constant	Poor
	threat to life (e.g., a child with status asthmaticus)
Class V	A moribund patient who is not expected to survive without the operation (e.g., a patient with severe cardiomyopathy requiring heart transplantation	Extremely poor