Sedation Assessment: Time for a Change
Abstract
Sedative medications are commonly prescribed to critically ill patients to manage a variety of physiologic and psychological conditions. Dosing of sedative agents are typically titrated to achieve an acceptable level of sedation based on frequent patient assessment. Despite a number of published sedation assessment scales, most lack adequate validity and reliability testing and their clinical usefulness in critically ill patients is limited. This panel discussion will compare and contrast the most common sedation assessment scales,suggest components of an ideal sedation assessment scale, and discuss challenges to the design and testing of a sedation assessment scale for use in critically ill patients.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA414319
Entities
People
- Marla J. Dejong
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology