Progress in study of analgesic and sedative care for ICU patients with mechanical ventilation / 中国中西医结合急救杂志

ABSTRACT

Mechanical ventilation is a medical method used frequently in critically ill patients after operation in the department of surgery, but its own invasive nature often causes great discomfort, inducing anxiety and irritability to the patients, therefore, postoperatively analgesic and sedative drug treatments are often necessary. With the general progress and attention paid on the critical care medicine, more and more people have studied the analgesic and sedative schemes for mechanical ventilation patients. In this article, the related contents in recent years concerning commonly used analgesic and sedative drugs, the standard criteria for analgesic and sedative therapy, the application of analgesic evaluation tool, and the analgesic and sedative therapy in domestic and abroad nursing intervention in ICU were reviewed and summarized.