The Importance of Sedation in the Treatment of Critical Illness

Is it even symptomatically or subjectively better to be sedated? Many of these patients, if you follow up with them later after they're extubated, are haunted by their experiences in the ICU. Delirium is this confused state people experience when they're critically ill. Even though the patient may be lying there motionless, they are internally experiencing these false perceptions of their reality.