A small step for sedation that may become a giant leap for critical care medicine

Affiliations

¹ DREAM, General ICU, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical-Care Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France. Electronic address: jean-michel.constantin@aphp.fr.
² Department of perioperative medicine, university hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
³ DREAM, General ICU, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical-Care Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France; Groupe Jeunes de la Société française d'anesthésie et de réanimation (SFAR), 74, rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris, France.
⁴ DREAM, General ICU, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical-Care Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France.

Editorial

Jean-Michel Constantin et al. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. 2019 Oct.

. 2019 Oct;38(5):425-427.

doi: 10.1016/j.accpm.2019.09.004.

¹ DREAM, General ICU, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical-Care Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France. Electronic address: jean-michel.constantin@aphp.fr.
² Department of perioperative medicine, university hospital of Clermont-Ferrand, 63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France.
³ DREAM, General ICU, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical-Care Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France; Groupe Jeunes de la Société française d'anesthésie et de réanimation (SFAR), 74, rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris, France.
⁴ DREAM, General ICU, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical-Care Medicine, Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital, Sorbonne université, AP-HP, 47-83, boulevard de l'Hôpital, 75651 Paris, France.

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Keywords: Clinical trial; Critical care medicine; Dexmedetomidine; Mechanical ventilation; Sedation.

Comment on

Early Sedation with Dexmedetomidine in Critically Ill Patients.
Shehabi Y, Howe BD, Bellomo R, Arabi YM, Bailey M, Bass FE, Bin Kadiman S, McArthur CJ, Murray L, Reade MC, Seppelt IM, Takala J, Wise MP, Webb SA; ANZICS Clinical Trials Group and the SPICE III Investigators. Shehabi Y, et al. N Engl J Med. 2019 Jun 27;380(26):2506-2517. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1904710. Epub 2019 May 19. N Engl J Med. 2019. PMID: 31112380 Clinical Trial.