regional analgesia in intensive care unit

Regional Analgesia in Intensive Care Unit

which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Acute pain has emerged as a leading stressor for ICU (Intensive Care Unit) patients, moderate to severe pain intensity which has been observed in nearly 50% of ICU patients. While pain is widely recognized as the so-called fifth vital sign and we believed pain relief is an...

Regional analgesia in intensive care.

UNLABELLED JUSTIFICATIONS AND OBJECTIVES: regional analgesia plays an important role in multimodal pain management in critically ill patients, minimizing patient discomfort and reducing the associated physiological and psychological stress. Lower doses of systemic opioids reduce some of its side effects, such as withdrawal syndrome, possible psychological changes, and gastrointestinal dysfuncti...

Analgesia and sedation in intensive care unit.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients present pain. The administration of analgesics and sedatives is crucial for patient comfort and to reduce stress, as well as to prevent delay in recovery and ventilator weaning. The objective of the present study was to conduct a review on analgesia and sedation in the ICU. CONTENT The present study reviewed the causes of pain,...

Sedation, analgesia, and paralysis in the intensive care unit.

Analgesia and sedation in paediatric intensive care unit.

Analgesia and Sedation in pediatric intensive care unit Volakli E, Sdouga M Treating children in an intensive care unit aims at the reversal of physiologic derangement of their organism while caring for comfortable physical and psychological environment. Any correctable environmental and physical factors causing discomfort should be addressed before the introduction of effective analgesia and s...

Remifentanil for analgesia-based sedation in the intensive care unit

Providing effective analgesia and adequate sedation is a generally accepted goal of intensive care medicine. Due to its rapid, organ independent and predictable metabolism the short acting opioid remifentanil might be particularly useful for analgesia-based sedation in the intensive care unit (ICU). This hypothesis was tested by two studies in this issue of Critical Care. The study by Breen et ...