Letter
How did you sleep in the ICU?
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* Corresponding author: Laetitia Franck laet.franck@ymail.com
Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées du Val de Grâce, Département d'anesthésie réanimation, 74 boulevard de Port Royal, 75005 Paris, France
Critical Care 2011, 15:408 doi:10.1186/cc10042
Published: 7 March 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Sleep is important for healing and survival of critical illness, as far as quantitative and qualitative sleep deprivation can have negative consequences on a physiologic function, particularly the immune mechanism, as well as psychological well-being [1].