Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit.

Barr, Juliana; L Fraser, Gilles; Puntillo, Kathleen; Wesley Ely, E; Gélinas, Céline; F Dasta, Joseph; E Davidson, Judy; W Devlin, John; P Kress, John; M Joffe, Aaron; B Coursin, Douglas; L Herr, Daniel; Tung, Avery; R H Robinson, Bryce; K Fontaine, Dorrie; A Ramsay, Michael; R Riker, Richard; N Sessler, Curtis; Pun, Brenda; Skrobik, Yoanna; Jaeschke, Roman; College of Critical Care Medicine, American

doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3182783b72

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Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation, and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit.

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Authors:

Juliana Barr

Gilles L Fraser

Kathleen Puntillo

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To revise the "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Sustained Use of Sedatives and Analgesics in the Critically Ill Adult" published in Critical Care Medicine in 2002. METHODS: The American College of Critical Care Medicine assembled a 20-person, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional tas...

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