Development and Evaluation of Strategies to Improve Sedation Quality in InTensive Care

A bespoke on-line education package has been developed and will be accessible by all ICU nursing staff. They will have unique logins and the system will track their use and completion of the education package. There is a small multiple choice assessment at the end of the package.

Using statistical process charts, the data gathered from the Sedation quality Tools (SQATs) completed each shift by the ICU nurses, will be fed back highlighting sedation specific outcomes e.g. number of over sedated days per 1000 ventilator days.

Responsiveness monitoring (developed by GE Healthcare) is a novel technology used to monitor patient responsiveness and essentially alert ICU nursing staff when their patients may be over sedated.