Abstract:
OBJECTIVES:To describe the variety of medications prescribed along with the doses administered and routes of administration, and to delineate the clarity of orders written and the accuracy of transcription of drugs used for sedation, anxiety, pain, and neuromuscular blockade in a surgical intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN:A prospective, observational study of drug-related information collected from forms used by physicians and nurses. SETTING:Three adult surgical ICUs at an academic medical center. Patients were admitted to a surgical service and co-managed by the surgical ICU team and primary surgical service. PATIENTS:Consecutive patients admitted to all of these units from September 1992 to January 1993. INTERVENTIONS:None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS:Information on prescribing and administering sedatives, analgesics, and neuromuscular blocking drugs was obtained from data collected on 221 patients. A total of 202 (91%) patients received, on average, 1.9 +/- 1.4 study drugs (range 0 to 9) in a wide variety of combinations. There were 2,103 total doses administered from 448 drug orders. Ninety percent of study drug orders were written for administration on an "as-needed" basis; in 42% of these orders, the indication for use was not specified. On average, only 27% of the maximal allowable daily dose was administered; this number ranged from 15% for hydromorphone to 77% for chlordiazepoxide. Morphine sulfate, the most commonly prescribed drug, was ordered primarily for intravenous administration in 84% of patients. Morphine sulfate was prescribed using 19 different doses (written as a range of doses) and 13 different dosing intervals. Transcription discrepancies were observed in 17% of orders. In 2.7% of doses, the actual dose that was administered could not be determined. CONCLUSIONS:A wide variety of sedatives and analgesics are frequently used in surgical ICU patients. These agents are often ordered on an "as-needed" basis using a range of doses, sometimes without adequate directions about the indication for their use. Daily doses received are significantly less than their maximum allowable daily doses. Orders for these medications are sometimes transcribed and charted incorrectly. In contrast, neuromuscular blocking agents are not commonly prescribed. Future studies are needed to improve order writing of these agents, and to determine the criteria used by physicians and nurses in the selection and administration of these agents, the outcomes of therapy, and the most cost-effective regimen.
journal_name
Crit Care Medjournal_title
Critical care medicineauthors
Dasta JF,Fuhrman TM,McCandles Cdoi
10.1097/00003246-199406000-00016subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-06-01 00:00:00pages
974-80issue
6eissn
0090-3493issn
1530-0293journal_volume
22pub_type
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198606000-00015
更新日期:1986-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199612000-00014
更新日期:1996-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e31825fd39d
更新日期:2012-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199606000-00025
更新日期:1996-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199505000-00020
更新日期:1995-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002268
更新日期:2017-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0B013E318161FAC1
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e318207ec52
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000189939.10881.60
更新日期:2005-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199908000-00035
更新日期:1999-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000004222
更新日期:2020-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,meta分析
doi:10.1097/00003246-200108000-00005
更新日期:2001-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199706000-00014
更新日期:1997-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e318236f2af
更新日期:2012-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000120054.32845.a6
更新日期:2004-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199802000-00018
更新日期:1998-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e31817e2ec5
更新日期:2008-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000155924.74942.7f
更新日期:2005-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/01.CCM.0000230240.02216.21
更新日期:2006-09-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002497
更新日期:2017-08-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2004-11-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829791da
更新日期:2013-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198508000-00017
更新日期:1985-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-200007000-00057
更新日期:2000-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/CCM.0000000000002380
更新日期:2017-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-198906000-00007
更新日期:1989-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199408000-00014
更新日期:1994-08-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Critical care medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181f23dc4
更新日期:2010-10-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/01.ccm.0000114575.08269.f6
更新日期:2004-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00003246-199306000-00010
更新日期:1993-06-01 00:00:00