Intensive care unit sedation: Waking up clinicians to the gap between research and practice

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 556-557

  Devlin, John W ^a   Tanios, Maged A ^b,c   Epstein, Scott K ^c  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Analgesia; Delirium; Guidelines; Intensive care unit; Monitoring; Protocols; Sedation; Survey

Indexed keywords

NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING AGENT;

ANALGESIA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; NEUROMUSCULAR BLOCKING; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEDATION;

EID: 31344460782     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000199058.88904.D6     Document Type: Editorial

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