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I know..it’s incredibly hard from a family member’s perspective. Believe me.

Initiating things like precedex, routine haldol, oral long-acting benzodiazepines, will help minimize the use of shorter acting agents that interfere with the awakening and weaning trials. It’s difficult but I would make the nurses turn down sedation by 0.5mg/hr every 2-3 hours and use pushes for breakthrough to avoid just going right back up on continuous infusions. But...it’s tough...

Delirium is hard to recognize and often times harder to understand all the contributing factors. But, the trach will help...