How natural light affects critically ill patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage
1 Department of Neurology, First Hospital of Jilin University, Jilin University, Xinmin Street 71#, 130021 Changchun, China
2 NVS, Karolinska Institute, Novum, plan 5, Huddinge, SE 141 86, Stockholm, Sweden
Critical Care 2011, 15:423 doi:10.1186/cc10146
See related research by Wunsch et al., http://ccforum.com/content/15/2/R81
Published: 10 May 2011First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
Wunsch and colleagues analyzed the effect of window rooms on critically ill patients admitted to the ICU with subarachnoid hemorrhage, and concluded that the presence of a window in an ICU room did not improve their outcomes [1]. We commend the attempt to associate natural light with improved outcomes for hospitalized patients, but we have some concern as regards the data analysis and interpretation.
