Sleep is fundamental for everyday functioning, yet it is often negatively impacted in critically
ill patients by the intensive care setting. With a focus on the neurological intensive care unit …

Intensive care unit (ICU) environment is not propitious for restoring sleep. Alterations in
sleep have potential detrimental consequences explaining increasing interest in the field …

That critical illnesses and environmental factors in intensive care units (ICUs) are associated
with sleep disturbances was recognized shortly after the first ICUs were created. Many …

Background: Clinical trialists and clinicians have used a number of sleep quality measures
to determine the outcomes of interventions to improve sleep and ameliorate the …

Objective: The objectives of this article were to describe the deleterious effects of sleep
deprivation, characterize sleep in patients cared for in an intensive care unit (ICU) …

Sleep is a complex process influenced by biological and environmental factors.
Disturbances of sleep quantity and quality occur frequently in the critically ill and remain …

Sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU) is considered to be subjectively poor, highly
fragmented, and sometimes referred to as “atypical.” Although sleep is felt to be crucial for …

Critically ill patients frequently experience poor sleep, characterized by frequent disruptions,
loss of circadian rhythms, and a paucity of time spent in restorative sleep stages. Factors that …

Sleep disturbance is commonly encountered amongst intensive care patients and has
significant psychophysiological effects, which protract recovery and increases mortality. Bio …

The hospital is not conducive to sleep. Patients in the ICU are particularly susceptible to
sleep disruption secondary to environmental and medical issues. Despite the frequency of …