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Published in: Critical Care 1/2010

01-03-2010 | Poster presentation

Sedation and analgesia: early results from a web-based survey of UK practice

Authors: C Mckenzie, S Yassin, M Terblanche

Published in: Critical Care | Special Issue 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. …
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Title
Sedation and analgesia: early results from a web-based survey of UK practice
Authors
C Mckenzie
S Yassin
M Terblanche
Publication date
01-03-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue Special Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc8722

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