SCCM: Sedating drugs may slow elders' recovery (CME/CE)

Courtesy MedPage Today Infectious Disease  Fri, 01/15/2010 - 07:09

MIAMI BEACH (MedPage Today) -- The chances that an older surgical ICU patient will be discharged to their home rather than to a nursing facility appear to be linked to the types of sedating drugs used to control postsurgical delirium and agitation, researchers suggested here.


 

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