Pain and Delirium in Critical Illness: An Exploration of Key 2018 SCCM PADIS Guideline Evidence Gaps

Semin Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Oct;40(5):604-613. doi: 10.1055/s-0039-1698809. Epub 2019 Dec 11.

Abstract

Managing pain and delirium are crucial to patients, families, and caregivers in intensive care units. The Society of Critical Care Medicine 2018 Pain, Agitation/Sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep disruption (PADIS) guidelines reviewed literature until October 2015 and made its recommendations for critically-ill adults. This chapter addresses evidence gaps, identified during the guideline process, most relevant to clinicians, adds newer evidence published after the PADIS 2018 guidelines were produced, describes hindsight-driven PADIS process or content-related gaps, and reflects on how these considerations may help inform future research investigations and new guideline efforts.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Critical Care / standards*
  • Critical Illness / therapy*
  • Delirium / therapy
  • Humans
  • Intensive Care Units / standards
  • Pain Management / methods*
  • Pain Management / standards
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic