Objective: Young pediatric patients may require sedation for successful magnetic resonance imaging. We aimed to investigate the impact of a reduced dose of chloral hydrate with short term sleep deprivation on the achievement of magnetic resonance imaging. \\r\\nMaterials and Methods: Children included in the study were younger than 6 years sleep deprived for at least four hours. Chloral hydrate was given as a single dose of 25 mg/kg, All patients were monitored before, during and after the radiological procedure, \\r\\nResults: We included one hundred eighty-five patients in the study. The mean±SD of sleep deprivation before the radiological procedure was 8.48±2.9 hours. The radiological imaging \\r\\nwas successful in 155 (84.24%) patients. Minor side effects of chloral hydrate like nausea and vomiting were reported in our study \\r\\nConclusion: Magnetic resonance imaging was achieved with chloral hydrate dose of 25 mg/kg in conjugation with short term sleep deprivation in 84.23 per cent of our study population

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