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Sleep and Critical Illness

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Sleep is vital for health and well being and involves a complex set of neuro-physiological processes [1]. A complex set of derangements characterize critical illness, and involve almost every organ system, including the neurological system. It follows that when these two spheres of complexity meet, i.e., the study of sleep during critical illness assumes an even higher level of complexity. Despite such hurdles, the potential rewards to better understanding sleep during critical illness have immense bearing to both sleep medicine and critical care fields [2]. While the field of sleep medicine needs further mechanistic data to determine the effect of sleep on survival, existing evidence suggests that sleep disturbances exert deleterious effects on patients with critical illness. Therefore, the focus of this chapter is to provide the reasons as to why, and what, a pulmonologist needs to know about sleep and critical illness.

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Acknowledgment

Dr. Parthasarathy was a recipient of an NIH/NHLBI grant (HL095748) during the writing of this manuscript.

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  1. Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Arizona, 1501 North Campbell Avenue, Tucson, AZ, 85724, USA

    Nimesh Patel

  2. Research Service Line, Southern Arizona VA Health Care System, 3601 S. Sixth Avenue, 0-151, Tucson, AZ, 85723, USA

    Sairam Parthasarathy

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Patel, N., Parthasarathy, S. (2012). Sleep and Critical Illness. In: Badr, M. (eds) Essentials of Sleep Medicine. Respiratory Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-735-8_20

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