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Available online /content/12/6/R152 Vol 12 No 6 Open Access Research Sedation practice in the intensive care unit: a UK national survey 1 1 2 Henrik Reschreiter , Matt Maiden and Atul Kapila 1Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia 2Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospital NHS Trust, London Road, RG1 5AN, Reading, UK Corresponding author: Henrik Reschreiter, henrik.reschreiter@ Received: 6 Oct 2008 Revisions requested: 5 Nov 2008 Revisions received: 27 Nov 2008 Accepted: 1 Dec 2008 Published: 1 Dec 2008 Critical Care 2008, 12:R152 (doi:10.1186/cc7141) This article is online at: /content/12/6/R152 © 2008 Reschreiter et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The purpose of this study was to evaluate sedation sedation guideline (80%), and 78% state that daily sedation practice in UK intensive care units (ICUs), particularly the holding is practiced. A wide variety of sedating agents is used, implementation of daily sedation holding, written sedation with the choice of agent largely determined by the duration of guidelines, sedation scoring tools and choice of agents. action rather than cost. The most frequently used agents were propofol and alfentanil for short-term sedation