Clinical practices to promote sleep in the ICU: A multinational survey

To describe sleep assessment and strategies to promote sleep in adult ICUs in ten countries. Multicenter, self-administered survey sent to nurse managers. Response rate was 66% with 522 ICUs providing data. ‘Lying quietly with closed eyes’ was the characteristic most frequently perceived as indicative of sleep by >60% of responding ICUs in all countries except Italy. Few ICUs (9%) had a protocol for sleep management or used sleep questionnaires...