San Diego—Allowing ICU patients to sleep can help reduce delirium, so new guidelines recommend just that: creating an environment that is conducive to sleeping (Crit Care Med 2018;46[9]:e825-e873).
This is the first time recommendations from the literature were codified into an organized approach to sleep in the ICU, explained Gerald L. Weinhouse, MD, who co-chaired the sleep section of the 2018 Pain, Agitation/sedation, Delirium, Immobility, and Sleep disruption (PADIS)