Nurse matters: Avoid Sleepiness While DrivingKATHLEEN SITZMAN MSRN
sleepiness - a very sleepy state; "sleepiness causes many driving accidents" drowsiness, somnolence temporary state - a state that continues for a limited time oscitance, oscitancy - drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning sleeplessness, wakefulness - a temporary state in which you are unable...
Evaluation on sleepiness under long term exposure of car interior noise while driving a small diesel truck -A model for sleepiness by physical and physiological metirics-In order to see the effect of long term exposure of car interion noise under driving of small diesel truck on sleepiness, ...
Self-reported daytime sleepiness was ascertained in the UK Biobank using the question “How likely are you to dose off or fall asleep during the daytime when you don’t mean to? (e.g. when working, reading or driving)” with the response options of “Never/rarely”, “sometimes”, “oft...
within a 4-year follow-up and 40.8% after 8 years.35 Notably, researchers found that EDS in early PD was reversible in the first few years but the symptom of daytime sleepiness became more persistent over time.35,52 Conceivably, the development of EDS can be attributed to different causes....
Excessivedaytime sleepiness(EDS) is a condition characterized by a pressure to sleep during the day, which causes either social or occupational problems for the individual. This condition is different from (idiopathic)hypersomnia, which involves daytime somnolence despite 11 hours or more of sleep....
The Swiss Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) states that overtiredness and microsleep are among the top 5 main causes of motorway accidents leading to injuries between 2017 and 2021 [3]. In addition, the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention estimates that drowsy drivers cause 10–20% of all ...
t need to fall asleep at the wheel to be a danger -- drowsiness alone can be as dangerous as driving drunk. Driving while sleepy is like driving with ablood alcoholcontent of .08% -- over the legal limit in many states. And drinking and drowsiness are double trouble when driving ...
(Mihăicută et al, 2013). However, it should not be assumed that sleep disordered breathing is the only factor affecting ESS scores. Other causes, including depression, are also important. Gender and age have little effect on ESS scores among adults, but ethnicity does. African-Americans ...
This chapter summarizes causes and consequences of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). The pathological causes of EDS include primary sleep disorders, general medical, psychiatric and neurologic diseases, and alcohol and drug abuse. Consequences of EDS are both short term and long term with increasing...