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  • Critical Care Medicine
  • Sleep Medicine

Background:

  • Sleep disturbances are common in critically ill patients.
  • The relationship between sleep and clinical outcomes in acute brain injury and critical illness requires further investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between sleep and clinical outcomes in patients with acute brain injury and critical illness.
  • To determine if sleep presence impacts functional outcomes in critically ill patients.

Main Methods:

  • Retrospective analysis of 262 critically ill patients monitored with continuous electroencephalography (2018-2020).
  • Clinical outcome assessed using the modified Rankin Scale (mRS).
  • Statistical modeling controlled for anesthetic concentration, diagnosis, sex, and disease severity (APACHE score).

Main Results:

  • Twenty-one percent of patients achieved sleep.
  • Patients achieving sleep had significantly better outcomes (43%) compared to those without sleep (26%).
  • Neurological patients achieved sleep more frequently (27%) than other diagnoses (14%).

Conclusions:

  • Sleep presence in critically ill patients, particularly neurocritical patients, is associated with improved functional outcomes.
  • Further research is needed to explore sleep augmentation and anesthetic effects on outcomes.