Sedation in Critical Care: Dr Shawn Whitehead, PharmD
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Brown Surgery Podcast
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Welcome back to the brown surgery podcast. Today we are going to tackle the topic of sedation in critical care with our local Trauma ICU pharmacist Dr Shawn Whitehead, PharmD
The objectives for this podcast are to discuss some of the common medications we have at our disposal for sedating patients in the ICU, particularly those who are intubated on mechanical ventilation. We will also discuss the formal assessment of patients with agitation and factors that should be considered when working up these patients.
Article on the Richmond Agitation and Sedation Scale can be found at: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1164/rccm.2107138
Resources on the PADIS Guidelines at SCCM can be found here: https://www.sccm.org/iculiberation/guidelines
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