Invited Commentary

In this interesting article, the authors highlighted the importance of sleep to the wellbeing of hospitalized surgical patients.1 Although inpatient sleep disturbances have been evaluated extensively in critically ill patients, the authors are to be commended for examining an elective surgical population. Through a series of questionnaire instruments and information from Fitbit devices, the authors demonstrated that sleep disturbances are common. Notably, most elective surgical patients in their cohort received little to no sleep on the first postoperative night.
Source: Journal of the American College of Surgeons - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: New England surgical society article Source Type: research