The Effects of Sedatives on Mortality

The Ramsey score back in the day, this is in the late 90s, versus just giving the drugs without any direction. And you can see here there was a significant reduction in length of stay and time on the ventilator - even tracheostomies. The number which came out a year later was a simpler approach, I think, which is to simply stop the drugs every morning, until the patient awakens able to follow instructions.