Most hospitals had more than one ICU, and therefore more ... The most commonly reported sedation monitoring tools included the Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (45%; n = 38), the Sedation ...

Objective: To develop and test the reliability and validity of the State Behavioral Scale for use in describing sedation/agitation ... pairs of trained pediatric critical care nurse evaluators ...

measured via the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale. No significant differences were observed for other secondary outcomes, including hospital or ICU length of stay, among others. Mean participant ...