Host Kyle Enfield, MD, FCCM, welcomes Adriano Targa, PhD, to discuss the article, “Sleep and Circadian Health of Critical Survivors: A 12-Month Follow-Up Study,” published open access in the August 2024 issue of Critical Care Medicine (Henríquez-Beltrán M, et al. Crit Care Med. 2024;52:1206-1217). They will discuss the prevalence of sleep disturbances and circadian rhythm fragmentation in critical survivors, the impact of factors such as invasive mechanical ventilation and hospitalization duration, and associations among sleep quality, mental health, and respiratory function one year post-discharge.

Dr. Targa is a researcher at the Center for Biomedical Research Network - CIBER in Madrid, Spain.

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