ABSTRACT
El ingreso a la UCIP somete al niño a una serie de estímulos y procedimientos estresantes y dolorosos. El uso de analgesia y sedación es un componente central en los cuidados del niño críticamente enfermo para asegurar su confort y seguridad. Es importante durante la prescripción de analgosedación la monitorización continua de sus efectos. Este proceso debe ser vigilado por todos los integrantes del equipo de salud y su familia. Esta guía se basa en los principios propuestos por la iniciativa "Libérame de la UCI", que consisten en un paquete (bundle) de medidas (ABCDEF) para optimizar la recuperación de los pacientes y sus desenlaces. Contiene tablas con la farmacología de los analgésicos y sedantes, con estrategias generales para el manejo de anal-gosedación y prevención del síndrome de abstinencia y delirium. Guía realizada por el equipo multidisciplinario para lograr una adherencia más completa.
ABSTRACT The admission of a child to the PICU subdue stressful and pain stimuli. The use of analgesia and sedation is the main component for the care of the critically ill children to guarantee comfort and security. During the prescription of analgesia and sedation, monitoring of their effects is important. This process must be supervised by the health team and supported by the family. This guide is based on the initiative "PICU liberation" where a bundle of measures (ABCDEF) is used to optimize the recovery and outcome. This guide contains tables of the pharmacology of analgesics and sedatives, some strategies on the use of analgosedation, prevention of withdrawal and delirium. A guide of the multidisciplinary team to achieve a complete adherence.
Subject(s)
Humans , Infant , Child, Preschool , Child , Adolescent , Syndrome , Delirium , Analgesia , Hypnotics and Sedatives , Pain , Intensive Care UnitsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVES: To develop a Latin American Consensus about Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. To clarify, reinforce, and adapt some specific recommendations for pediatric patients and to stimulate the implementation of these recommendations in clinical practice. DESIGN: Expert consensus recommendations with Delphi methodology. SETTING: Latin American countries. SUBJECTS: Experts in pediatric cardiopulmonary resuscitation from 19 Latin American countries. INTERVENTIONS: Delphi methodology for expert consensus. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: The goal was to reach consensus with all the participating experts for every recommendation. An agreement of at least 80% of the participating experts had to exist in order to deliver a recommendation. Two Delphi voting rounds were sent out electronically. The experts were asked to score between 1 and 9 their level of agreement for each recommendation. The score was then classified into three groups: strong agreement (score 7-9), moderate agreement (score 4-6), and disagreement (score 1-3). Nineteen experts from 19 countries participated in both voting rounds and in the whole process of drafting the recommendations. Sixteen recommendations about organization of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, prevention, basic resuscitation, advanced resuscitation, and postresuscitation measures were approved. Ten of them had a consensus of 100%. Four of them were agreed by all the participants except one (94.7% consensus). One recommendation was agreed by all except two experts (89.4%), and finally, one was agreed by all except three experts (84.2%). All the recommendations reached a level of agreement. CONCLUSIONS: This consensus adapts 16 international recommendations to Latin America in order to improve the practice of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in children. Studies should be conducted to analyze the effectiveness of the implementation of these recommendations.
