The Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale: Translation and reliability testing in a Swedish intensive care unit

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 729-735

  Almgren, M ^a,b   Lundmark, M ^a,b   Samuelson, K ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGITATION; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; KAPPA STATISTICS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICHMOND AGITATION SEDATION SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDATION; SWEDEN; VALIDITY; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DRUG EFFECTS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; APACHE; AWARENESS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDAZOLAM; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROPOFOL; PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWEDEN;

EID: 77953158722     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2009.02173.x     Document Type: Article

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