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Sedation practice: is it time to wake up and embrace change?

Kate Regan and Owen Boyd email

Intensive Care Unit, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Eastern Road, Brighton, BN2 5BE, UK

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Critical Care 2008, 12:102doi:10.1186/cc6203

Published: 8 January 2008


See related research by Martin et al., http://ccforum.com/content/11/6/R124

Abstract

Recommendations for sedation regimes in the intensive care unit (ICU) have evolved over the last decade based on findings that relate the clinical approach to improved patient outcomes. Martin and co-workers conducted two surveys into German sedation practice covering the time period during which these changes occurred and as such provide an insight into how these recommendations are being incorporated into everyday clinical practice.


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