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01.03.2010 | Poster presentation
Sedation and analgesia: early results from a web-based survey of UK practice
verfasst von:
C Mckenzie, S Yassin, M Terblanche
Erschienen in:
Critical Care
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Sonderheft 1/2010
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Evidence suggests prolonged sedation is associated with prolonged ventilation and mortality. Further evidence suggests that some sedatives and analgesics are more prone to cause oversedation than others, possibly due to disturbances in pharmacokinetic properties in the context of acute organ failure. Our aim was to describe current sedation and analgesic practice in UK ICUs, and to determine whether recent evidence has changed practice in recent years. …