Affiliation:
1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Physician Regional Medical Center, Naples, Florida, United States
2. Colombian Clinical Research Group in Neurocritical Care, Bogota, Colombia
Abstract
AbstractDaily sedation interruption or sedation vacation is a strategy for neurological evaluation, respiratory mechanics, cardiac stability, and eventual weaning to extubation. However, its application has safety aspects such as pulmonary, cardiac, and neurological complications.A protocol-driven sedation vacation in the medical intensive care helps with the reduction in the intensive care length of stay and increase in ventilator-free days.1,2 The same approach can be used in neurointensive care with alterations based upon the neurocritical care progression.