The importance of adequate sleep for good health and immune system function is well documented as is reduced sleep quality experienced by ICU patients. In the previous issue of Critical Care, Elliot and co-workers present a well done, largest of its kind, single-center study on sleep patterns in critically ill patients. They base their study on the 'gold standard', the polysomnography technique...

Purpose : Sleep disturbances in patients the intensive care unit (ICU) are related to health problems after discharge. Therefore, active prevention and management required. Hence, identification of factors that affect sleep who critically ill is necessary.Methods The PubMed, Cochrane Library, CINAHL, EMBASE, Web Science databases were searched. Selection criteria observational experimental stud...

Abstract Introduction Patients who have undergone cardiac surgery experience decreased sleep quality, which is associated with patients’ quality of life and mortality. Various interventions were conducted to improve after surgery; however, findings been inconsistent. This systematic review was examine the effects non-pharmacological in patients surgery. Methods The performed following PRISMA gu...

Background: Noise has the potential to affect comfort and health of workers. The objective this research was find out effect noise caused by timber harvesting process using chainsaws on concentration workers in an industrial forest plantation. Methods: This experimental study included 20 respondents which consisted 10 chainsaw oper...

BACKGROUND Post-anaesthesia care units (PACUs) with 24/7 activity and consequently artificial light and noise may disturb the sleep of patients who require prolonged medical supervision. After one postoperative night, we compared sleep quality in patients with and without noise (earplug) and light (eye mask) protection. METHODS After ethical board approval, 46 patients without any neurologica...

Viscoelastic materials have a relationship between stress and strain which depends on time or frequency. Anelastic solids represent a subset of viscoelastic materials: they have a unique equilibrium configuration and ultimately recover fully after removal of a transient load. Internal friction refers to the dissipative response of a material when subjected to a sinusoidal deformation. All mater...

Introduction Suicide is one of the main cause death in world. It’s an important public health problem that growning on new generations. Objectives The manners used to die have always been studied from psychiatry understand which mental illness induced victim various ways suicide. They are multiples and influenced by different factors. This study includes suicides cases defined “atypical”. Metho...