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Impact of oral melatonin on critically ill adult patients with ICU sleep deprivation: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Sleep deprivation is common in critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICU). It can result in delirium, difficulty weaning, repeated nosocomial infections, prolonged ICU length of stay and increased ICU mortality. Melatonin, a physiological sleep regulator, is well known to bene...

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Autores principales: Huang, Huawei, Jiang, Li, Shen, Ling, Zhang, Guobin, Zhu, Bo, Cheng, Jiajia, Xi, Xiuming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25135124
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-327