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- Title
Bundling sleep promotion with delirium prevention: ready for prime time?
- Authors
Kamdar, B. B.; Needham, D. M.
- Abstract
The authors focus on investigations into the association between poor sleep in the intensive care unit (ICU) and patient outcomes. Topics discussed include an article within the issue on a sleep-promotion and delirium-prevention intervention in a British hospital's ICU, minimizing environmental nighttime noise an light, and the negative consequences of delirium. Also mentioned are the use of other non-pharmacologic interventions to improve sleep and improvements in cognitive impairment.
- Subjects
INTENSIVE care units; SLEEP; HEALTH; RISK of delirium; HOSPITAL patients; HEALTH outcome assessment
- Publication
Anaesthesia, 2014, Vol 69, Issue 6, p527
- ISSN
0003-2409
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1111/anae.12686