Guideline
Adapting Evidence-Based Practice Guidelines for Sedation, Analgesia, Withdrawal, and Delirium Assessment and Management in Critically Ill Children.
- Care and rehabilitation
- Delirium
- Early mobilisation
- Mechanical ventilation
- Medical
- Nursing
- Pain management
- Physiotherapy
- Respiratory
- Sedation
- Sedation and analgesia
Summary
This paper describes the adaptation of existing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for sedation, analgesia, iatrogenic withdrawal and delirium in critically ill children, with an emphasis on early mobility. A multidisciplinary adaptation panel and external reviewers followed a formal three-phase adaptation methodology. Outputs include assessment tools (behavioural sedation/pain scoring, a withdrawal assessment tool, a delirium screening score) and algorithms for sedation, analgesia and weaning in both non-invasive and invasively ventilated patients. It is intended to standardise PICU practice, with further work needed on generalisability and implementation barriers.
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