Description

The sedation scale of the Bloomsbury Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University College and Middlesex Hospitals, London, can be used to assess sedation in critically ill patients in the Intensive Care Unit.


 

Clinical Status

Score

agitated and restless

3

awake and uncomfortable

2

aware but calm

1

roused by voice, remains calm

0

roused by movement or stimuli

-1

roused by painful stimuli

-2

unrousable

-3

natural sleep

A

 


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