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Thursday, 10 March 2016

Quiet time for mechanically ventilated patients in the medical intensive care unit



Intensive and Critical Care Nursing [Article in press]

McAndrew NS

Sleep disruption occurs frequently in critically ill patients. The primary aim of this study was to examine the effect of quiet time (QT) on patient sedation frequency, sedation and delirium scores; and to determine if consecutive QTs influenced physiologic measures (heart rate, mean arterial blood pressure and respiratory rate).

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