Sedation in Acute Brain Injury: Less is More?

• 29/09/2015

Over the past decades, landmark interventional studies in general intensive1!care unit (ICU) patients have taught us that efforts to reduce the use of sedatives, by daily interruption (Kress et al. 2000; Girard et al. 2008), by not using sedatives as standard practice (Strøm et al. 2010), or by tapering sedatives to an awake but comfortable state (Mehta et al. 2012), lead to improvements in outcomes....