Sentence examples for total sedation from inspiring English sources

Whereas in 2008, just after the protocol implementation, they showed a reduction in the median total sedation days from 7 to 5 days, in 2013, 5 years later, they obtained longer duration of total sedation days, mechanical ventilation, and PICU length of stay.

Most vulnerable is the compassionate end-of-life treatment known variously as "terminal sedation" "palliative sedation" or "total sedation".

Total sedation at the end of life emerged as one such treatment likely to be kept secret from patients.

Fewer studies reported outcomes of total sedation duration, sedative dose and sedative cost.

In Usta's study [ 11], patient controlled analgesia and sedation with alfentanil or fentanyl combined with midazolam for colonoscopy showed that total sedation times were shorter in the alfentanil group compared with the fentanyl group.

While the ambiguous term "terminal sedation (TS)" [ 8, 9] is used most often, other terms more clearly reflect the different viewpoints: "sedation for intractable distress in the imminently dying [ 10, 11];", end-of-life sedation [ 12] "slow-euthanasia" [ 13], "palliative sedation" [ 14], "total sedation" [ 15], "sedation in the final phase", "palliative sedation therapy" [ 16].

Results Two hundred and thirty-one patients were included in the study, with a mean age of 63 ± 15 years, SApatients admission 44 ± 15, total duration of sedation 147 ± 161 h.

The improvement of facilities in ICUs has led to a shift towards deep sedation, total paralysis and ventilator support in patients with severe tetanus.

Evered et al. compared the incidence of POCD in 644 patients who underwent coronary angiography under sedation, total hip replacement surgery under general anesthesia, and coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) under general anesthesia to 34 subjects in control group.

Secondary outcomes were the dose of propofol administered to patients, BIS scores, time of recovery from sedation, total norepinephrine administered to patients, and time taken to do the procedure.

Mortality analysis was performed between two groups (survivors and nonsurvivors); age, invasive procedures, total duration of sedation and MV, medical cause of admission, and KPRC infection were assessed as risk factors.