Ideally, no. Trauma patients are often agitated because of their underlying injury and resulting physiologic derangements (i.e., TBI, hypoxemia, blood loss and hypotension, etc…), which makes versed administration for this patient population potentially dangerous. There are some patients for whom versed may be necessary, but we should try to avoid it if possible. Finally, if a patient is already hypotensive or hypoxemic we simply cannot give versed to and unfortunately have to use restraints and man power to restrain the patient.
