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Mechanical ventilation is a common procedure used in pediatric intensive care units (ICU). Its use requires almost always the establishment of a sedation. Sedation is a generic term for all procedures, pharmacological or not, ensuring physical and psychological comfort and the safety of patient admitted in intensive care units.
An inadequate sedation, insufficient or excessive, has common side effects, as increase of the duration of mechanical ventilation and of hospital-acquired infections (in particular, ventilator associated pneumonia), of hemodynamic disorders, of extubation failure or accidental extubation, of withdrawal syndrome, and of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). All these complications increase mechanical ventilation time and ICU length of stay. Several studies in adult's population have shown that the implementation of a sedation algorithm allowed to decrease the incidence of these complications.
We hypothetized that the duration of mechanical ventilation would be reduced by a nurse-implemented sedative management protocol.
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During the third period, a nurse-implemented sedation is used. The collected data are the same that the collected data during the first period
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