In this post I link to and excerpt from Sedation November 3, 2016 by Dr. Josh Farkas from The Internet Book of Critical Care [Link is to the Table of Contents].
Here are direct links that Dr. Farkas has provided us to various sections of his chapter:
CONTENTS
- Approach to the agitated patient
- General principles of ICU sedation
- Agitated delirium vs. anxiety
- Long-term versus short-term sedation
- Multimodal sedation
- Sedation targets & circadian rhythm
- Basal sedation versus titratable sedation
- Nonsedation ?!
- Bridging to extubation
- Designing a sedative regimen
- Titratable agents
- Longer acting sedatives
- Algorithm
- Podcast
- Questions & discussion
- Pitfalls
- PDF of this chapter (or create customized PDF)