Comfort without coma: Changing sedation practices

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 635-637

  Fraser, Gilles L ^a   Riker, Richard R ^a  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Agitation; Analgesia; Coma; Critical care; Delirium; Outcomes; Sedation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; SEDATIVE AGENT;

AGITATION; ASSISTED VENTILATION; COMA; DELIRIUM; EDITORIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORTALITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SEDATION;

COMA; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PRACTICE GUIDELINES;

EID: 33846434449     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000254072.83323.4E     Document Type: Editorial

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