Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation and delirium in adult patients in the intensive care unit

Clinical practice guidelines for the management of pain, agitation and delirium of adult patients in the intensive care unit. Crit. Care Med. Jan 2013, Vol. 41(1), p.263-306

Barr, J. et al.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23269131?dopt=Abstract

Objective: To revise the "Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Sustained Use of Sedatives and Analgesics in the Critically Ill Adult" published in Critical Care Medicine in 2002. The American College of Critical Care Medicine assembled a 20-person, multidisciplinary, multi-institutional task force with expertise in guideline development, pain, agitation and sedation, delirium management, and associated outcomes in adult critically ill patients.