Sleep Disruption in Post-operative Patients in the Neurocritical Care Unit

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Conditions studied: Sleep Fragmentation

In brief

The role of sleep in patients admitted to the intensive care unit is an emerging field of research. There have been studies that show patients in the ICU have poor sleep including sleep fragmentation, multiple arousals, decreased stage 3 sleep and reduced REM sleep (1, 2, 3). Causes of poor sleep in the ICU include severity of illness, abnormal light exposure, and frequent arousals for medical care. Not only does poor sleep contribute to reduced cognitive function and delirium, but there are also implications for the immune system function and wound healing (4). Polysomnography is regarded as the gold standard for sleep studies, however it has limited utility in the ICU population (5) and alternative methods of sleep analysis need to be investigated to better understand the underlying physiologic mechanisms and subsequent cognitive effects.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02997839

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

1

Starts

2016-12-01

Expected to finish

2018-03-26

Last updated by the study team

2018-04-03

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• post operative back patients in the NCCU with no history of brain injury

You may not qualify if…

• None

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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