Sentences with phrase «sedation protocol»

«Using a sedation protocol helps enhance the comfort and safety of the pet and the staff and provides a more positive clinic visit for the client as well.»

Among children undergoing mechanical ventilation for acute respiratory failure, the use of a nurse - implemented, goaldirected sedation protocol compared with usual care did not reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation, according to a study appearing in JAMA.

«Exploratory analyses of several secondary outcomes indicated that the sedation protocol was associated with a difference in patients» sedation experience; patients in the intervention group were able to be safely managed in a more awake and calm state while intubated, receiving fewer days of opioid exposure and fewer sedative classes without an increase in inadequate pain or sedation management or clinically significant iatrogenic [consequence of treatment] withdrawal compared with patients receiving usual care, but they experienced more days with reported pain and agitation, suggesting a complex relationship among wakefulness, pain, and agitation,» the authors write.

«Use of sedation protocol does not reduce time on ventilator for children.»

Common medications, indications, mechanism of action, and sedation protocols will be discussed.

Fear Free handling tips and sedation protocols covered will help the veterinary health care team facilitate perioperative diagnostics, create peaceful anesthetic inductions, and ensure maximal patient comfort and emotional well - being throughout the pet's entire hospital stay.

Anesthesia: The Cat Hospital anesthesia / sedation protocols are designed and monitored to maximize our patient's safety.

Not exact matches

• We suggest protocols attempting to minimize sedation.

The intervention PICUs used a protocol that included targeted sedation, arousal assessments, extubation (removal of breathing tube) readiness testing, sedation adjustment every 8 hours, and sedation weaning.

The authors could not recommend one protocol over another but said the burden of providing sedation by any of the protocols was «very low.»

The medical protocol provided each patient with consistent procedures for airway management, ventilator settings, blood pressure control, fluid and electrolyte management, gastrointestinal and nutritional management, hematologic monitoring and management, intracranial pressure monitoring, sedation, use of medication, anticonvulsants, prevention against deep - vein thrombosis and rehabilitation.

Patients are often sedated if a loading protocol is used, so often this is done in the hospital and the patient is released when the sedation has worn off.

To establish PRA affected status by ERG, it is necessary that a full diagnostic protocol be done with dogs under anesthesia or heavy sedation, and that the rod and cone contributions of the ERG be separately evaluated.

At the North American Veterinary Conference in 2012, Dr. Dani McVety, founder of Lap of Love, a network of veterinary hospice providers, shared her euthanasia protocol, stressing the importance of a pre-euthanasia experience with no pain, reliable sedation, achieved with only one injection.

Sedation and preanesthesia protocols can therefore be tailored to the individual patient, helping to ensure consistent and predictable outcomes.

Patients are often very sedated if a loading protocol is used so often this is done in the hospital and the patient released when the sedation has resolved.