Sedative and Anelogenic Agents Used in Intensive Care

Anxiety, sleep disturbance, confusion, agitation and delirium, which can occure in intensive care patients very often due to distress and fear, makes an adequate strategy of sedation and analgesia essential. On the other hand, oversedation and analgesia lead to prolonged mechanical ventilation and ICU stay. Insufficient sedation causes increased complication rate because of stress response. This paper mentions analgesics and sedatives in ICU and gives recomendations of guidelines resulting current studies in this area

Yoğun bakımda kullanılan sedatif ve analjezik ajanlar

Yoğun bakımda kalan hastalarda stres, korku ve ağrıya bağlı endişe, uyku bozukluğu, kofüzyon, ajitasyon ve deliryum sık ortaya çıkmaktadır

Writing references and using citation management software

The correct citation of references is obligatory to gain scientific credibility, to honor the original ideas of previous authors and to avoid plagiarism. Currently, researchers can easily find, cite and store references using citation management software. In this review, two popular citation management software programs (EndNote and Mendeley) are summarized