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Minerva Anestesiologica 2014 September;80(9):1018-29

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language: English

Update of recommendations for analgosedation in pediatric intensive care unit

Mondardini M. C. ¹, Vasile B. ², Amigoni A. ³, Baroncini S. ¹, Conio A. ⁴, Mantovani A. ², Corolli E. ⁵, Ferrero F. ⁶, Stoppa F. ⁷, Vigna G. ², Lampugnani E. ⁸, L’Erario M. ⁹ ✉

¹ Department of Pediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Policlinico S.Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy; ² Department of Pediatric Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Children’s Hospital, Spedali Civili di Brescia, Brescia, Italy; ³ Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Woman’s and Child’s Health, University Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy; ⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Regina Margherita Children’s Hospital, Turin, Italy; ⁵ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Children’s Hospital V. Buzzi, Milan, Italy; ⁶ S.C.D.O. Neonatal Intensive Care, Maggiore della Carità University Hospital, Novara, Italy; ⁷ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital IRCCS, Rome, Italy; ⁸ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, IRCCS Istituto Gianina Gaslini, Genoa, Italy; ⁹ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Children’s Hospital A. Meyer, Florence, Italy

Effective and adequate therapy to control pain and stress are essential in managing children in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) undergoing painful invasive procedures, this should be, but is not yet, one of our main aims. Aware that this difficult mission must be pursued in a systematic, multimodal and multitasking way, the Studying Group on Analgosedation in PICU from the Italian Society of Neonatal and Paediatric Anesthesia and Intensive Care (SARNePI) is providing its recommendations.