A Quality Improvement Evaluation of a Primary As-Needed Light Sedation Protocol in Mechanically Ventilated Adults.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

First, to implement successfully a light-sedation protocol, favoring initial as-needed (prioritizing as-needed) boluses over continuous infusion sedation, and second, to evaluate if this protocol was associated with differences in patient-level sedative requirements, clinical outcomes, and unit-level longitudinal changes in pharmacy charges for sedative medications.

Design

Retrospective review comparing patients who received the prioritizing as-needed sedation protocol to similar patients eligible for the prioritizing as-needed protocol but treated initially with continuous infusion sedation.

Setting

Thirty-two bed medical ICUs in a large academic medical center.

Patients

A total of 254 mechanical ventilated patients with a target Riker Sedation-Agit

SUBMITTER: Groetzinger LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7746207 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature