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Daily Sedation Interruption in Mechanically Ventilated Critically Ill Patients Cared for With a Sedation Protocol: A Randomized Controlled Trial

S Mehta, L Burry, D Cook, for the SLEAP Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group JAMA, 2012, 308(19):doi:10.1001/jama.2012.13872

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This 430 patient, 14 centre, prospective Canadian RCT compared a sedation protocol to sedation protocol + daily interruption of sedation, and found no difference in duration of mechanical ventilation. The protocol + interruption group did have higher mean daily dose of midazolam,...


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