Trial reportCritical care (London, England)2017
Impact of earplugs and eye mask on sleep in critically ill patients: a prospective randomized study.
Trial report in Critical care (London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02292134 (Benefit of an Individual Protection Against Noise and Light on Sleep Quality in ICU Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 34 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Benefit of an Individual Protection Against Noise and Light on Sleep Quality in ICU Patients
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 123 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to prevent delirium in critically ill patients: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Intensive care medicine · 2021Pooled it
- The Efficacy of Eye Masks and Earplugs Interventions for Sleep Promotion in Critically Ill Patients: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Sleep Measurement in Critically Ill Patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2020Pooled it
- Early interventions to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in survivors of life-threatening medical events: A systematic review.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2019Pooled it
- A randomized trial of I-SLEEP: A patient education and empowerment intervention on inpatient sleep duration and medical sleep disruptions.Journal of hospital medicine · 2026Trial
- Eye-mask and earplugs as sleep aid on glucose metabolism in sleep-deprived pregnancy: a randomized controlled trial.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Trial
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- Improving sleep in ICUs through real-time sleep monitoring: a proof-of-concept study.Annals of intensive care · 2026Article
- Noise in the Intensive Care Unit: A Narrative Review of Its Characteristics, Clinical Impact, and Reduction Strategies.Critical care research and practice · 2026Review
- Optimizing Sleep Hygiene in the Hospital Environment.Sleep medicine clinics · 2025Review
- Effects of a multicomponent sleep enhancement protocol on delirium incidence in elderly critically ill surgical patients: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of intensive care · 2025Article
- Earplug use during sleep and its association with cardiovascular disease - Results from a large sample of the general population.International journal of cardiology. Heart & vasculature · 2025Article
- Based -evidence, an intervention study to improve sleep quality in awake adult ICU patients: a prospective, single-blind, clustered controlled trial.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Article
- The influence of sleep disorders on perioperative neurocognitive disorders among the elderly: A narrative review.Ibrain · 2024Review
- Evaluation of the sensory environment in a large tertiary ICU.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Observational
- Creating the ICU of the future: patient-centred design to optimise recovery.Critical care (London, England) · 2023Article
- Sleep during and following critical illness: A narrative review.World journal of critical care medicine · 2023Review
- Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS): recent updates.Journal of intensive care · 2023Review
- Causes, Consequences, and Treatments of Sleep and Circadian Disruption in the ICU: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundPoor sleep is common in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, where environmental factors contribute to reduce and fragment sleep. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of earplugs and eye mask on sleep architecture in ICU patients.
methodsA single-center randomized controlled trial of 64 ICU patients was conducted from July 2012 to December 2013. Patients were randomly assigned to sleep with or without earplugs and an eye mask from inclusion until ICU discharge. Polysomnography was performed on the first day and night following inclusion. The primary outcome was the proportion of stage N3 sleep over total sleep time. Secondary outcomes were other descriptors of sleep and major outcome variables.
resultsIn the intervention group, nine (30%) patients did not wear earplugs all night long. The proportion of N3 sleep was 21 [7-28]% in the intervention group and 11 [3-23]% in the control group (p = 0.09). The duration of N3 sleep was higher among the patients in the intervention group who wore earplugs all night long than in the control group (74 [32-106] vs. 31 [7-76] minutes, p = 0.039). The number of prolonged awakenings was smaller in the intervention group (21 [19-26] vs. 31 [21-47] in the control group, p = 0.02). No significant difference was observed between the two groups in terms of clinical outcome variables.
conclusionsEarplugs and eye mask reduce long awakenings and increase N3 duration when they are well tolerated.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov, NCT02292134 . Registered on 21 Nov 2013.
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