The restlessness associated with critical illness must nearly always, by necessity, be quelled with sedation and analgesia. Clinicians must sometimes use neuromuscular blockade as a last resort.

Data Source: MEDLINE, PubMed. Conclusions: Children in the cardiac ICU often require one or more components of general anesthesia: analgesia, amnesia (sedation and hypnosis), and muscle relaxation ...

He/she may inject local anesthesia into the skin and deeper tissues of the lower back which may cause ... You may be receiving patient-controlled epidural analgesia or PCEA. What this means is that ...