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Measuring sleep in critically ill patients: beware the pitfalls

Survivors of critical illness frequently report poor sleep while in the intensive care unit (ICU), and sleep deprivation has been hypothesized to lead to emotional distress, ICU delirium and neurocognitive dysfunction, prolongation of mechanical ventilation, and decreased immune function. Thus, the...

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Autor principal: Watson, Paula L
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2206493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17850679
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc6094