What's Going on With Sedatives?

The days of just leaving everybody in acoma have long disappeared. From the intents of carrying it really has a huge emphasis on trying to keep our patients awake and interactive and delirium free as we can. Numerical rating scaleis really important, and i think everybody knows what this is It's been pretty well validated. There's a couple of alternatives, such as the behaviora pain scale. They're not exactly interchangeable. But if you can't use a numerical rating scale because your patient's pretty well sedated or unable to participate, then the b p s would be another alternative. This is where we get into looking at things like facial expression and movement of the patient