P0045 / #622: A RETROSPECTIVE COHORT STUDY EXPLORING EXISTING SEDATION, ANALGESIA AND WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT IN A PAEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNIT (PICU): THE SEESAW STUDY

Analgesia and sedation in paediatric intensive care unit.

Analgesia and Sedation in pediatric intensive care unit Volakli E, Sdouga M Treating children in an intensive care unit aims at the reversal of physiologic derangement of their organism while caring for comfortable physical and psychological environment. Any correctable environmental and physical factors causing discomfort should be addressed before the introduction of effective analgesia and s...

Analgesia and sedation in intensive care unit.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients present pain. The administration of analgesics and sedatives is crucial for patient comfort and to reduce stress, as well as to prevent delay in recovery and ventilator weaning. The objective of the present study was to conduct a review on analgesia and sedation in the ICU. CONTENT The present study reviewed the causes of pain,...

A Practical Guide to Sedation and Analgesia in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

All critically ill children have the right to adequate relief of their pain Correctable physical and environmental factors causing discomfort should be addressed using non-pharmacologic interventions before the initiation of pharmacologic interventions. The choice of sedative-analgesic agent and its initial dose are selected on the basis of several factors such as cause of the distress, desire ...

Sedation, analgesia, and paralysis in the intensive care unit.

Sédation et analgésie en réanimation – Aspects pédiatriques Sedation and analgesia in the paediatric intensive care unit

Sedation and analgesia are a constant challenging issue in paediatric intensive care units, for ethical reasons among others. Basically, goals and available treatments in that context do not differ from those in adults. For instance, while we propose midazolam as the first choice benzodiazepine, there is no evidence for encouraging the use of one morphinomimetic rather than others in children. ...