title: Sedation, delirium and psychological distress: let's not be deluded.
abstract: New ways of approaching sedation and analgesia are being considered in our endeavour to improve our management of the ventilated patient. Long-term psychological problems are not insignificant and before we can assume benefit or harm of any new approach we must not delude ourselves by using sampling methods that can miss those patients most at risk.
authors.affiliation: Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3GA, UK. rdg@liverpool.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D016292:Procedural Sedation / Q000379:methods*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male