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. 2021 Jun:63:104-105.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2020.09.009. Epub 2020 Sep 19.

Shortage of anesthetics: Think of inhaled sedation!

N Ferrière  1 , L Bodenes  2 , P Bailly  2 , E L'Her  3
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Shortage of anesthetics: Think of inhaled sedation!

N Ferrière et al. J Crit Care. 2021 Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: Acute respiratory distress syndrome; Anesthetics; Inhalation; Isoflurane; SARS-Cov-2.

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Declaration of Competing Interest None to declare.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Sufentanyl consumption before and after volatile anesthetics introduction. The figure displays the Box-and-whisker plot of the sufentanyl consumption, before and after volatile anesthetics introduction while keeking the same sedation goal. Central grey box represents the values from the lower to upper quartile (25 to 75 percentile). The middle line represents the median. The horizontal line extends from the minimum to the maximal value, excluding outside and far out values. A P value equal or below 0.05 was considered statistically significant.
Supplementary Fig. S1
Supplementary Fig. S1
Nurse driven of inhaled sedation with Isoflurane protocol using Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS) and expired fraction of Isoflurane (IsoEF).
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