Sedation in French intensive care units: a survey of clinical practice

Annals of Intensive Care

Table 2 Reported aspects of the use of sedation and pain scales, when used

Intensivists reporting the use of a scale	Sedation scale		Pain scale in non-communicating patients during potentially painful procedures		Pain scale in communicating patients during potentially painful procedures
Scale, no. of intensivists (%)	Ramsay scale	50%	BPS	80%	Analogous scale	98%
	RASS	38%	Locally-designed scale	9%	BPS	9%
	ATICE Scale	8%	Other*	12%	Other*	6%
	SAS	4%
	Other	9%
Assessment, no. of intensivists (%)
By nurses mostly	91%		93%		90%
By doctors mostly	1%		1%		0%
By both nurses and doctors	8%		7%		10%
Frequency, no. of intensivists (%)
At least every 4 hr	73%
At least every 12 hr	16%
At least once a day	10%

RASS, Richmond agitation sedation scale; ATICE, Adaptation to intensive care environment; SAS, Sedation agitation scale; BPS, Behavior pain scale.
Analogous scale, includes visual scale, numerical scale.
*Several intensivists reported the use of 2 scales or more, resulting in total percentage >100%.