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Conscious Sedation and Deep Sedation, Including Neuromuscular Blockade

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Conscious sedation and deep sedation of intensive care unit (ICU) patients requiring procedures is both common and necessary. Guidelines exist for the sustained use of sedatives, analgesics, and paralytics 1,2 but not for their procedural use. Anecdotal experience serves as the basis for using analgesia when a critically ill patient undergoes bronchoscopy and to not do so when that same patient gets endotracheally suctioned. Few investigations have questioned the historically firm notion that some procedures require sedation and others do not.

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  1. Respiratory ICU, Department of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Division, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, UT, USA

    Russell R. Miller III

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    Heidi L. Frankel

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Miller, R.R. (2010). Conscious Sedation and Deep Sedation, Including Neuromuscular Blockade. In: Frankel, H., deBoisblanc, B. (eds) Bedside Procedures for the Intensivist. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-79830-1_2

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