Fragmented Sleep And Opioid Medication Utilization During Hospitalization Following Orthopaedic Trauma

The authors aimed to characterize sleep patterns in hospitalized patients following orthopaedic trauma and assess their relationship with opioid medication use. The study found that patients experienced short and fragmented sleep, with higher opioid utilization correlating with decreased sleep duration. Specifically, each additional morphine milligram equivalent of opioid use was associated with an average reduction of 2.7 minutes of sleep per day.