RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 The clinical significance of disturbed sleep and the use of hypnotics
JF The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
JO J R Coll Gen Pract
FD British Journal of General Practice
SP 515
OP 527
VO 24
IS 145
A1 T. O. Candler
YR 1974
UL http://bjgp.org/content/24/145/515.abstract
AB This article discusses the causes of sleeplessness and its long-term management. Sleep may be repeatedly disturbed by pain, dyspnoea, micturition, or restlessness. The sleep patterns of the diseases which produce these symptoms are given, with an explanation in physiological terms of why they disturb sleep. A knowledge of these sleep patterns provides a valuable aid to diagnosis. It is concluded that there is only one condition, senility leading to senile dementia, for which long-term night sedation is justified.