ABSTRACTBackground: Providing safe and effective sedation to critically ill children is challenging. The assessment, prevention, and treatment of symptoms of iatrogenic withdrawal are critical aspects of sedation practice.Objective: To describe the use of sedative medications in critically ill children at McMaster Children’s Hospital.Methods: This retrospective observational study included children admitted over a 12-month period who survived their illness and who received sedation and at least 48 h of invasive ventilation. We collected data from the time of admission to the pediatric intensive care unit to 3 days after discontinuation of sedation.Results:We included 67 children. The median age was 1.6 (interquartile range [IQR] 0.2–6.2) ye...
Purpose: Sedatives administered to critically ill children should be titrated to effect, because bot...
Background: In adult patients who are critically ill and mechanically ventilated, daily interruption...
textabstractCritically ill children admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) are bound to experience...
Humane care for critically ill pediatric patients supported on mechanical ventilation necessitates c...
Objective: To characterize sedation weaning patterns in typical practice settings among children rec...
ImportanceProtocolized sedation improves clinical outcomes in critically ill adults, but its effect ...
This article discusses the rationale of sedation in respiratory failure, sedation goals, how to asse...
ABSTRACTBackground: Critically ill children require sedation for comfort and to facilitate mechanica...
IMPORTANCE: Protocolized sedation improves clinical outcomes in critically ill adults, but its effec...
AIM: To study the feasibility of daily interruption of sedatives in critically ill children. METHODS...
textabstractPurpose: To compare daily sedation interruption plus protocolized sedation (DSI + PS) to...
Paediatric intensive care is an expanding specialty that has been shown to improve the quality of ca...
Children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) often require multiple medications to ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a sedation protocol using dexmedetomi...
INTRODUCTION: Mechanically ventilated children in paediatric intensive care units are commonly admin...
Purpose: Sedatives administered to critically ill children should be titrated to effect, because bot...
Background: In adult patients who are critically ill and mechanically ventilated, daily interruption...
textabstractCritically ill children admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) are bound to experience...
Humane care for critically ill pediatric patients supported on mechanical ventilation necessitates c...
Objective: To characterize sedation weaning patterns in typical practice settings among children rec...
ImportanceProtocolized sedation improves clinical outcomes in critically ill adults, but its effect ...
This article discusses the rationale of sedation in respiratory failure, sedation goals, how to asse...
ABSTRACTBackground: Critically ill children require sedation for comfort and to facilitate mechanica...
IMPORTANCE: Protocolized sedation improves clinical outcomes in critically ill adults, but its effec...
AIM: To study the feasibility of daily interruption of sedatives in critically ill children. METHODS...
textabstractPurpose: To compare daily sedation interruption plus protocolized sedation (DSI + PS) to...
Paediatric intensive care is an expanding specialty that has been shown to improve the quality of ca...
Children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) often require multiple medications to ...
OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility, safety, and efficacy of a sedation protocol using dexmedetomi...
INTRODUCTION: Mechanically ventilated children in paediatric intensive care units are commonly admin...
Purpose: Sedatives administered to critically ill children should be titrated to effect, because bot...
Background: In adult patients who are critically ill and mechanically ventilated, daily interruption...
textabstractCritically ill children admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU) are bound to experience...