Sedation Vacations look like a Bad Trip

November 2, 2012 by Scott Weingart 3 Comments

Great post on PulmCCM.org on a recent JAMA Sedation Article stating these holidays may actually be a bad trip for our ICU patients.

For more on ED/ICU sedation see this prior podcast.

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Scott Weingart. Sedation Vacations look like a Bad Trip. EMCrit Blog. Published on November 2, 2012. Accessed on April 6th 2020. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/sedation-vacations-look-like-a-bad-trip/ ].

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Sean Marshall

Thanks for the link…an interesting read. I had been drinking the coolaid on this issue.

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Fayaz

Wow. This changes everything…
Great stuff as always Scott!

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Matt Hoffman

Thanks for the mention and the link Scott! -Matt