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01-12-2012 | Poster presentation
Sleep monitoring by actigraphy in short-stay ICU patients
Authors:
AW Van der Kooi, JH Tulen, AW De Weerd, MM Van Eijk, MJ Van Uitert, SE De Rooij, BC Van Munster, AJ Slooter
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2012
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Excerpt
Sleep deprivation is common in ICU patients, but difficult to investigate [
1]. The gold standard for sleep monitoring, polysomnography (PSG), is impractical for use in ICU patients [
2]. Actigraphy proved to be a good alternative in non-ICU patients [
3]. However, in prolonged mechanically ventilated patients, actigraphy was inaccurate, probably due to ICU-acquired weakness and resulting inactivity [
2]. Short-stay ICU patients do not suffer from ICU-acquired weakness, and the accuracy of actigraphy in these patients has not yet been studied [
4]. The aim of this study was to investigate actigraphy for sleep assessment in short-stay ICU patients. …
