The ED-SED Study: A Multicenter, Prospective Cohort Study of Practice Patterns and Clinical Outcomes Associated With Emergency Department SEDation for Mechanically Ventilated Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize emergency department sedation practices in mechanically ventilated patients, and test the hypothesis that deep sedation in the emergency department is associated with worse outcomes.

Design

Multicenter, prospective cohort study.

Setting

The emergency department and ICUs of 15 medical centers.

Patients

Mechanically ventilated adult emergency department patients.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

All data involving sedation (medications, monitoring) were recorded. Deep sedation was defined as Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale of -3 to -5 or Sedation-Agitation Scale of 2 or 1. A total of 324 patients were studied. Emergency department deep sedation was observed in 171 patients (52.8%), and was associated wit

SUBMITTER: Fuller BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7323907 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature