David R Hillman, Melissa Carlucci, Jean G Charchaflieh, Tom V Cloward, Bhargavi Gali, Peter C Gay, M Melanie Lyons, Margaret M McNeill, Mandeep Singh, Meltem Yilmaz, Dennis H Auckley
This article addresses the issue of patient sleep during hospitalization, which the Society of Anesthesia and Sleep Medicine believes merits wider consideration by health authorities than it has received to date. Adequate sleep is fundamental to health and well-being, and insufficiencies in its duration, quality, or timing have adverse effects that are acutely evident. These include cardiovascular dysfunction, impaired ventilatory function, cognitive impairment, increased pain perception, psychomotor disturbance (including increased fall risk), psychological disturbance (including anxiety and depression), metabolic dysfunction (including increased insulin resistance and catabolic propensity), and immune dysfunction and proinflammatory effects (increasing infection risk and pain generation)...
April 1, 2023: Anesthesia and Analgesia