• Paediatric nursing · Feb 2008

    Review

    Weaning from sedation: don't ignore the score.

    • Doreen Collyer and Lucy Meredith.
    • Child Health Studies, University of Chester.
    • Paediatr Nurs. 2008 Feb 1; 20 (1): 17-9.

    AbstractThe use of sedation and analgesia in critically ill children is necessary for clinical management but can result in undesirable side effects such as physical dependence, tolerance and withdrawal symptoms. Weaning from sedation aims to prevent such unpleasant effects. Regular scoring of signs and symptoms of withdrawal is an essential part of the weaning regime, allowing the clinician to assess whether reduced doses are causing withdrawal symptoms. However, there are wide variations in whether and how scoring systems are used. This variation may be the result of high workload, other external pressures, traditional ways of working or other factors. Strategies such as an easily accessible scoring flow chart, a poster display, improved staff induction or other measures could help to improve safety and quality in sedation management.

      Pubmed     Copy Citation     Plaintext  

      Add institutional full text...

    Notes

     
    Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?
    300 characters remaining
    help        
    You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
    • Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as *italics*, _underline_ or **bold**.
    • Superscript can be denoted by <sup>text</sup> and subscript <sub>text</sub>.
    • Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines 1. 2. 3., hyphens - or asterisks *.
    • Links can be included with: [my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com)
    • Images can be included with: ![alt text](https://bestmedicaljournal.com/study_graph.jpg "Image Title Text")
    • For footnotes use [^1](This is a footnote.) inline.
    • Or use an inline reference [^1] to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document [^1]: This is a long footnote..

    hide…