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  • Sleep disturbances are common in critically ill patients.
  • Understanding factors influencing sleep is crucial for patient recovery.

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  • To identify extrinsic and intrinsic factors affecting sleep in critically ill patients.
  • To explore the relationship between these factors and objective sleep quality.

Main Methods:

  • Polysomnography (PSG) and patient self-reports were used to assess sleep in intensive care unit (ICU) patients.
  • Environmental factors like sound and light levels were measured.
  • Objective sleep quality was determined by the PSG sleep period time ratio, analyzed via regression.

Main Results:

  • Sleep in critically ill patients was highly fragmented.
  • Patients identified noise and light as primary sleep disruptors (56 dB sound, 74 lux daytime, 1 lux nighttime).
  • The regression model found the presence of an artificial airway as the only significant predictor of sleep quality (P = .007), explaining 25% of variance.

Conclusions:

  • The artificial airway emerged as a significant, albeit unexpected, predictor of sleep quality in ICU patients.
  • Further research is needed to understand how artificial airways might influence or even promote sleep in this population.