Recommendations for analgesia and sedation in critically ill children admitted to intensive care unit.

ABSTRACT: We aim to develop evidence-based recommendations for intensivists caring for children admitted to intensive care units and requiring analgesia and sedation. A panel of national paediatric intensivists expert in the field of analgesia and sedation and other specialists (a paediatrician, a neuropsychiatrist, a psychologist, a neurologist, a pharmacologist, an anaesthesiologist, two critical care nurses, a methodologist) started in 2018, a 2-year process. Three meetings and one electronic-based discussion were dedicated to the development of the recommendations (presentation of the project, selection of research questions, overview of text related to the research questions, discussion of recommendations). A telematic anonymous consultation was adopted to reach the final agreement on recommend

SUBMITTER: Amigoni A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8853329 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature