Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 378-382 , December 2006

Does sedation practice delay time to extubation?

,Accepted 8 August 2006.

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☆ This study received the first prize to best study in Nursing research of the Federación Panamericana e Ibérica de Medicina Crítica y Terapia Intensiva in the 9th Congress of the World Federation of Societies of Intensive and Critical Care Medicine.

PII: S0964-3397(06)00100-5

doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2006.08.003

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 378-382 , December 2006

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