SEDATION  SMART 2002 Milan, May 29-31, 2002 Free access

Minerva Anestesiologica 2002 April;68(4):240-4

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language: English

Sedation in the Intensive Care Unit . The basis of the problem

Conti G., Mercurio G., Iacobone E., Auricchio D., Liberati Q.

From the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine Catholic University of Rome, Rome, Italy

The ­authors brief­ly dis­cuss the advan­tag­es and lim­its of seda­tion in crit­i­cal­ly ill ­patients. ­They ­also ­focus the impor­tance of an indi­vid­u­al­ized sed­a­tive ­approach ­which pro­vides ­pain ­relief and mod­ulates ­stress ­response, allow­ing ­patients to be eas­i­ly arous­able and coop­er­a­tive as nec­es­sary.