Low-dose Dexmedetomidine Improves Sleep Quality Pattern in Elderly Patients after Noncardiac Surgery in the Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.

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Patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after surgery often develop sleep disturbances. The authors tested the hypothesis that low-dose dexmedetomidine infusion could improve sleep architecture in nonmechanically ventilated elderly patients in the ICU after surgery.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Anesthesiology

Title: Anesthesiology

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1528-1175

ISSN (Print): 0003-3022

Publication date (Electronic): Nov 2016

Volume: 125

Issue: 5

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[1 ] From the Departments of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine (X.-H.W., F.C., Z.-T.M., D.-X.W.), Respiratory Disease and Critical Care Medicine (C.Z., J.M., G.-F.W.), and Biostatistics (S.-N.Z.), Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China; and Section of Anaesthetics, Pain Management and Intensive Care, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom (D.M.). Current position: Department of Anesthesiology, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China (X.-H.W.).

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DOI: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001325

PubMed ID: 27571256

SO-VID: 0a9aed97-8291-452a-a4d2-456e367442a7

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