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Hypnotics and Sedatives
Known as:
Sedative and Hypnotic
, sedatives hypnotics
, hypnotics sedatives
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A drug that calms and soothes, and reduces stress and tension. Tranquilizers are used to treat anxiety and insomnia.
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Highly Cited
2014
Highly Cited
2014
Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness.
P. Pandharipande
,
T. Girard
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+14 authors
E. W. Ely
New England Journal of Medicine
2014
Corpus ID: 5392080
METHODS We enrolled adults with respiratory failure or shock in the medical or surgical intensive care unit (ICU), evaluated them…
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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Long-term cognitive impairment after critical illness.
P. Pandharipande
,
T. Girard
,
+14 authors
E. Ely
New England Journal of Medicine
2013
Corpus ID: 38399068
BACKGROUND Survivors of critical illness often have a prolonged and disabling form of cognitive impairment that remains…
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Review
2010
Review
2010
Opioid Prescriptions for Chronic Pain and Overdose
K. Dunn
,
K. Saunders
,
+8 authors
M. Von Korff
Annals of Internal Medicine
2010
Corpus ID: 13906306
BACKGROUND Long-term opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain is becoming increasingly common in community practice. Concomitant…
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Review
2003
Review
2003
Monitoring sedation status over time in ICU patients: reliability and validity of the Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale (RASS).
E. W. Ely
,
B. Truman
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+10 authors
Gordon R. Bernard
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
2003
Corpus ID: 3901660
CONTEXT Goal-directed delivery of sedative and analgesic medications is recommended as standard care in intensive care units…
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
The Richmond Agitation-Sedation Scale: validity and reliability in adult intensive care unit patients.
C. Sessler
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M. S. Gosnell
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+5 authors
R. K. Elswick
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care…
2002
Corpus ID: 23409587
Sedative medications are widely used in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Structured assessment of sedation and agitation is…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Daily interruption of sedative infusions in critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation.
J. Kress
,
A. Pohlman
,
M. O’Connor
,
J.B. Hall
New England Journal of Medicine
2000
Corpus ID: 8714473
BACKGROUND Conous infusions of sedative drugs in the intensive care unit may prolong the duration of mechanical ventilation…
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Review
1999
Review
1999
Drugs and Falls in Older People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analysis: I. Psychotropic Drugs
R. Leipzig
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R. Cumming
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M. Tinetti
Journal of The American Geriatrics Society
1999
Corpus ID: 25870454
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate critically the evidence linking psychotropic drugs with falls in older people.
Highly Cited
1987
Highly Cited
1987
Neurogenetic adaptive mechanisms in alcoholism.
C. Robert Cloninger
Science
1987
Corpus ID: 2520072
Clinical, genetic, and neuropsychopharmacological studies of developmental factors in alcoholism are providing a better…
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Highly Cited
1977
Highly Cited
1977
Benzodiazepine receptor: demonstration in the central nervous system
H. Möhler
,
T. Okada
Science
1977
Corpus ID: 30291604
Diazepam, a potent minor tranquilizer, binds with high affinity to a specific benzodiazepine receptor that occurs exclusively in…
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Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Controlled Sedation with Alphaxalone-Alphadolone
M. Ramsay
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T. M. Savege
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B. Simpson
,
R. Goodwin
British medical journal
1974
Corpus ID: 39861595
Alphaxalone-alphadolone (Althesin), diluted and administered as a controlled infusion, was used as a sedative for 30 patients in…
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