Sleep monitoring by actigraphy in short-stay ICU patients
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Sleep monitoring by actigraphy in short-stay ICU patients
Sleep deprivation is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. The criterion standard for sleep monitoring, polysomnography, is impractical in ICU. Actigraphy (a wrist watch indicating amount of sleep) proved to be a good alternative in non-ICU patients, but not in prolonged mechanically ventilated patients, probably due to ICU-acquired weakness. Short-stay ICU patients do not suffer from I...
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عنوان ژورنال: Critical Care
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/cc10927