Assessment of compliance with sedation guidelines, scoring system and recorded daily sedation hold.
Audit the use of specific sedation agents with defined target sedation score.
Sedation hold strategies – compliance and acceptance, education programmes and safety concerns.
Monitoring compliance with sedation hold in the context of a ventilator care bundle.
Use of weekly/fortnightly collection of these data, which can be displayed on run charts and interventions and changes can be tracked with this data.
Impact of following sedation guidelines and sedation holds on morbidity and mortality, particularly reduction in the number of days on mechanical ventilation, length of ICU stay and incidence of delirium.
