Search Tag: sleep in the ICU

ICU Management

The-night-in-the-icu

2020 11 Aug

T hey say that in the world of the intensive care unit (ICU), there is no night. It can be qualified as a lesser day, but not really as a night. The hustle and bustle may be slower, patient flow and activity may be less, conversations may be negligible, and the staff on duty may be limited, but patient care continues, alarms are in place, and the...Read more

ICU Management

Isicem19-let-the-patients-sleep

2019 27 Mar

Dr. Edward Litton, an intensive care specialist and researcher at Royal Perth Hospital, talked about sleep disturbance in the ICU at the 39th International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine . Dr. Litton, who has led several observational and interventional studies on sleep in the ICU, highlighted that sleep deprivation is...Read more