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SEEIUC
STEPS
ANALGESIA = CONTROL OF THE PAIN
The pain is (was) a great problem for the patients joined ICU’s, this pain is conditioned by the patient’s pathology and by the numerous diagnoses and therapeutic techniques.
SEDATION = DREAM
It is used as a helping technique for facilitating other treatments, trying to maintain the patient free of anxiety and pain. The sedation tries to obtain the well-being of the patient and also his safety.
MUSCULAR RELAXATION
It tries to obtain the neuromuscular blockade. It consists of abolishing the motor reflexes and providing the easing of the skeletal muscle. At Intensive Care Units the muscular relaxing drugs are useful for the control of critical patients who need a better manage of their lung compliance when analgesia and sedation turned out to not be enough to control the situation. (8)