Hospitals can be a poor environment for patient sleep and rest. Hospital wards are often noisy, and patients can have their sleep and rest interrupted by medical care such as collection of vital ...

Danie van der Lith PATIENTS sleeping on the floor in corridors, overflowing bins, and blocked basins are just some of the challenges currently faced at Kuruman Hospital.Public Servants Association ...

And the patients were very happy not to be woken up.” After a year, the response was overwhelmingly positive. So, in December 2023, the sleep initiative expanded throughout Memorial Hospital to be ...

New research suggests that sleep patterns in comatose patients could help predict their chances of waking up. Researchers at Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital cross-referenced ...

The country’s biggest mental hospital, Mathari, is struggling with capacity issues that have left patients sharing beds and sleeping on the floor, the Auditor-General has revealed. The audit for ...

Among those with sleep spindles and cognitive motor dissociation, 76% of patients showed evidence of consciousness by the time they were discharged from the hospital. A year later, 41% of these ...

(THE CONVERSATION) For patients hospitalized with chest pain, the amount of time they spend sedentary afterward is linked to ...

Doors slammed, and a patient profanely told a nurse to shut up. Urine drenched a shared toilet. Louis yearned for her reclining Sleep Number king-size mattress rather than a flimsy hospital bed ...