Sedation Assessment Tool (SAT) for Mx of agitated patients in ED

see also:

• managing violence or the aggressive patient in the ED

• the SAT is a simplified version of the altered mental state score (AMSS) tailored for rapid and easy assessment of the degree of agitation or sedation in the agitated patient being managed in the ED using sedatives, hypnotics and anxiolytics
• it was evaluated against the AMSS and shown to have a good correlation but more simple, rapid and useful for ED staff, it took ~10secs to do and interrater reliability was high (kappa 0.88) over all 7 categories ¹⁾