Motor Activity Assessment Scale: A valid and reliable sedation scale for use with mechanically ventilated patients in an adult surgical intensive care unit

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1271-1275

  Devlin, John W ^a,c   Boleski, Gail ^a   Mlynarek, Mark ^a   Nerenz, David R ^b   Peterson, Edward ^b   Jankowski, Michelle ^b   Horst, H Mathilda ^a   Zarowitz, Barbara J ^b  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c DETROIT RECEIVING HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Critical care; Intensive care unit; Mechanical ventilation; Monitoring; Nursing; Pain; Psychometrics; Sedation; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGITATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; DRUG MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0032813749     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199907000-00008     Document Type: Article

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