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Impact of earplugs and eye mask on sleep in critically ill patients: a prospective randomized study

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Title
Impact of earplugs and eye mask on sleep in critically ill patients: a prospective randomized study
Published in
Critical Care, November 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13054-017-1865-0
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Alexandre Demoule, Serge Carreira, Sophie Lavault, Olivier Pallanca, Elise Morawiec, Julien Mayaux, Isabelle Arnulf, Thomas Similowski

Abstract

Poor sleep is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, where environmental factors contribute to reduce and fragment sleep. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of earplugs and eye mask on sleep architecture in ICU patients. A single-center randomized controlled trial of 64 ICU patients was conducted from July 2012 to December 2013. Patients were randomly assigned to sleep with or without earplugs and an eye mask from inclusion until ICU discharge. Polysomnography was performed on the first day and night following inclusion. The primary outcome was the proportion of stage N3 sleep over total sleep time. Secondary outcomes were other descriptors of sleep and major outcome variables. In the intervention group, nine (30%) patients did not wear earplugs all night long. The proportion of N3 sleep was 21 [7-28]% in the intervention group and 11 [3-23]% in the control group (p = 0.09). The duration of N3 sleep was higher among the patients in the intervention group who wore earplugs all night long than in the control group (74 [32-106] vs. 31 [7-76] minutes, p = 0.039). The number of prolonged awakenings was smaller in the intervention group (21 [19-26] vs. 31 [21-47] in the control group, p = 0.02). No significant difference was observed between the two groups in terms of clinical outcome variables. Earplugs and eye mask reduce long awakenings and increase N3 duration when they are well tolerated. ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02292134 . Registered on 21 Nov 2013.

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Unknown 284 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 37 13%
Student > Master 27 10%
Researcher 19 7%
Student > Postgraduate 17 6%
Other 16 6%
Other 47 17%
Unknown 121 43%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 72 25%
Medicine and Dentistry 59 21%
Psychology 6 2%
Unspecified 5 2%
Neuroscience 3 1%
Other 17 6%
Unknown 122 43%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 145. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 August 2023.
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