Causes of ICU Pain and the Frequency of Undertreatment
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چکیده
1. Interpret factors affecting the acute and long-term psychological well-being of the critically ill. 2. Design initiatives to prevent agitation, pain, and delirium and the development of post-traumatic stress disorder in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. 3. Design effective strategies to optimize pharmacologically based ICU patient comfort while avoiding therapeutic misadventures. 4. Appraise mechanisms for caregiver evaluation of pain, agitation, and delirium in verbal and nonverbal critically ill patients. 5. Justify the use of “analgesia-first” sedation for most critically ill patients. 6. Argue successfully for and design a program that avoids drug-induced coma for most patients through the provision of protocol-driven and goal-directed sedation and analgesia using validated assessment tools. 7. Develop a mechanism for the application of daily sedative interruption in the ICU.
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