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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2019 Jan-Feb;68(1):73–79. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000322

Table 4.

Example of Sedation Frequency Calculation

1200–1300 1300–1400 1400–1500 1500–1600 Summed 4 hour
block Sedation
Frequency Score by
medication
Total 4 hour block
Sedation
Frequency Score
Propofol Infusion
(mcg/kg/min)
25 25 25 25 4

6
Fentanyl Boluses
(mcg)
50 25, 25* 2
*

Note. The maximum sedation frequency is 1/medication/hour.