Patients were informed of the sleep protocol, received a written protocol and gave their informed consent to the study.
Each patient has been informed individually of the sleep protocol, received a written protocol and gave their informed consent to the study and to the analysis and publication of anonym data.
Nine healthy men (23 28 years) went through a 6-week sleep protocol with subjects as their own controls in a repeated measures design with a total of 11 nights in a sleep laboratory.
Findings from this study are considered preliminary because of several limitations, including the reliance on a single working memory task, the use of multiple scanners, and a fixed sleep protocol across all subjects.
They prioritized, in descending order, therapeutic activities, reality orientation, thrice-daily mobilization, reminiscence therapy, light therapy, sleep protocol, nutritional intervention, and addressing sensory impairment to be most useful to their loved one's recovery.
These protocols directed repeated reorientation of the patient and provision of cognitively stimulating activities; a nonpharmacologic sleep protocol; early mobilization activities and range of motion exercises; timely removal of catheters and physical restraints; use of eyeglasses, magnifying lenses, and hearing aids; and early correction of dehydration.
LZ and MB designed sleep protocols, trained sleep technicians, and supervised sleep studies.
During these protocols, either low sleep pressure conditions were attained by an alternating cycle of 150 min of wakefulness and 75 min of sleep (NAP) protocol, or high sleep pressure conditions were achieved by total sleep deprivation (SD) protocol.
