How do we know when patients sleep properly or why they do not? Critical care 2013, 17:145
Sjoberg, F. and Svanborg, E.
http://ccforum.com/content/17/3/145/abstract
The importance of adequate sleep for good health and immune system function is well documented as is reduced sleep quality experienced by ICU patients. In this issue of Critical Care, Elliot and co-workers present, a well done, largest of its kind, single center study on sleep patterns in critically ill patients. They base their study on the "gold standard", the polysomnography technique (PSG), which is resource demanding to perform and often difficult to evaluate.
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