• Critical care clinics · Jul 2008

    The sleep-friendly ICU.

    • Aharon E Sareli and Richard J Schwab.
    • Division of Sleep Medicine and Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, 3624 Market Street, Suite 205, Philadelphia, PA 19141, USA. aharon.sareli@uphs.upenn.edu
    • Crit Care Clin. 2008 Jul 1;24(3):613-26, viii.

    AbstractAchieving restorative sleep in the ICU remains a challenge for most patients. Various environmental and nonenvironmental factors affect sleep patterns in the ICU. This article discusses the effects and relative importance of these factors on sleep patterns in the critical care setting. In addition, the implications of sleep pattern alteration on human physiology and homeostatic mechanisms are considered.

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