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It seems to work in ITU patients

Gopinath Ramaswamy, SE13 6LH   (18 February 2006)

It seems to work in ITU patients 18 February 2006
Gopinath Ramaswamy, SHO in Intensive Care London, SE13 6LH Send response to journal: Re: It seems to work in ITU patients	We have used melatonin as part of multimodal therapy for inducing sleep in ITU patients.It has worked in three out of three patients we used,giving us a hundred percent success rate.Though this is a very small number to say anything substantial,but certainly the result is encouraging.We used melatonin only after traditional sedatives proved ineffective in those three patients.The use of melatonin was along with other sedatives and not on its own. Competing interests: None declared