Study protocol to test the efficacy of self-administration of dexmedetomidine sedative therapy on anxiety, delirium, and ventilator days in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients: an open-label randomized clinical trial

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Dexmedetomidine 100%
• Self Administration 93%
• Delirium 89%
• Mechanical Ventilators 82%
• Hypnotics and Sedatives 78%
• Critical Illness 72%
• Anxiety 56%
• Randomized Controlled Trials 52%
• Self-Management 37%
• Opioid Analgesics 15%
• Therapeutics 12%
• Clinical Trials 11%
• Pandemics 9%
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders 8%
• Random Allocation 8%
• Artificial Respiration 8%
• Intensive Care Units 7%
• Occupational Groups 6%
• Psychology 5%
• Depression 5%
• Quality of Life 5%
• Delivery of Health Care 5%
• Equipment and Supplies 5%
• Safety 5%
• Pain 5%
• Population 3%