Abstract:Background & objective: Patients treated with mechanical ventilation may need sedatives and analgesics due to discomfort, pain, lack of coordination with the device, immunity maintenance, and oxygenation elevation. The use of sedation scoring protocols and systems reduces the duration of mechanical ventilation and hospitalization. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the effect of controlled sedation based on the Richmond model on the duration of mechanical ventilation in patients admitted to the ICU… Show more
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