The AIR-SED Study: A Multicenter Cohort Study of SEDation Practices, Deep Sedation, and Coma Among Mechanically Ventilated AIR Transport Patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To characterize prehospital air medical transport sedation practices and test the hypothesis that modifiable variables related to the monitoring and delivery of analgesia and sedation are associated with prehospital deep sedation.

Design

Multicenter, retrospective cohort study.

Setting

A nationwide, multicenter (approximately 130 bases) air medical transport provider.

Patients

Consecutive, adult mechanically ventilated air medical transport patients treated in the prehospital environment (January 2015 to December 2020).

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

All data involving sedation (medications, monitoring) were recorded. Deep sedation was defined as: 1) Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale of -3 to -5; 2) Ramsay Sedation Sc

SUBMITTER: Moy HP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8663813 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature