• Critical care clinics · Oct 1995

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    Sedation for the mechanically ventilated patient.

    • A J Mazzeo.
    • Department of Anesthesiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA.
    • Crit Care Clin. 1995 Oct 1;11(4):937-55.

    AbstractThis article discusses the potential benefits of sedation for the mechanically ventilated patient. These benefits include the alleviation of anxiety and pain, which may result in a reduction of oxygen consumption. Other advantages include improved synchronization of a patient's breathing pattern with ventilator settings and better patient care, comfort, and safety. The patient's clinical situation, such as respiratory failure caused by right-to-left shunt, cardiovascular problems, elevated intracranial pressure, hepatic disease, and renal failure, needs to be considered when selecting a sedative agent.

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