Critical Care

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Letter

How did you sleep in the ICU?

Laetitia Franck*, Jean-Pierre Tourtier, Nicolas Libert, Laurent Grasser and Yves Auroy

Author Affiliations

Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées du Val de Grâce, Département d'anesthésie réanimation, 74 boulevard de Port Royal, 75005 Paris, France

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Critical Care 2011, 15:408 doi:10.1186/cc10042

Published: 7 March 2011

First 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].