title: [Interest of psychiatric guidelines in managing agitation in intensive care].
abstract: This paper discusses the importance of psychiatric guidelines and the position of the psychiatrist in the management of agitation in the intensive care unit. The use of psychiatric validated scales to assess agitation seems to ameliorate the quality of care in psychiatry, but also in intensive care. Psychiatric experts' recommendations for managing agitation are given, which is useful to create an open discussion with the intensivists. The use of sedative medication to protect the patient, staff and to prevent an escalation of violence remains a personal choice for each practitioner, depending on individual patient needs and context. In the treatment of agitated patients, an equilibrium needs to be found between the subjective dimension and the available data from evidence based medicine.
authors: Service d'accueil, d'urgences et de liaison psychiatrique, Département de psychiatrie, HUG, Genève.
authors: Coralie
authors: C
authors: Lazignac
authors: Bara
authors: B
authors: Ricou
authors: Liviu
authors: L
authors: Dan
authors: Salvatore
authors: S
authors: Virgillito
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Adam
authors: Majid
authors: M
authors: Seyedi
authors: Andrei
authors: A
authors: Cicotti
authors: Amine
authors: A
authors: Azi
authors: Cristian
authors: C
authors: Damsa
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011570:Psychiatry; D011595:Psychomotor Agitation / Q000188:drug therapy*