Sleep Assessment in Critically Ill Adults: Established Methods and Emerging Strategies.

ABSTRACT: Sleep is a biological mandate with an integral role in optimizing functions that maintain psychological and physical health. During critical illness, however, sleep may be disrupted at best and elusive at worst. Sleep improvement efforts and research endeavors evaluating interventions to improve sleep in critically ill adults are hampered by limited methods available to measure sleep in this setting. This narrative review summarizes available modalities for sleep assessment in the ICU, describes new ICU sleep assessment methods under development, and highlights features of the ideal ICU sleep measurement tool.

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SUBMITTER: Weinhouse GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8824402 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature