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IOM Panel Recommends Medical Residents Get Five Hours Of Uninterrupted Sleep After Working 16 Hours
Medical residents working a 30-hour shift should get a five-hour, uninterrupted break to sleep after working 16 hours, an Institute of Medicine panel recommended on Tuesday, the AP/Houston Chronicle reports (AP/Houston Chronicle, 12/2). |
Sleeping In School
Up to 10% of children starting school suffer from sleep disturbances and these may lead to poor performance or behavioral difficulties. In the current edition of Deutsches Arzteblatt International, the child and adolescent psychiatrist Gerd Lehmkuhl and his colleagues present the results of a study from Cologne, Germany. The authors have as yet interviewed 1388 children starting school and their parents from all parts of Cologne. |
Treating Sleep Apnea In Alzheimer's Patients Helps Cognition
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment seems to improve cognitive functioning in patients with Alzheimer's disease who also suffer from obstructive sleep apnea, according to the results of a randomized clinical trial conducted at the University of California, San Diego. The study led by Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Ph.D. |
Identifying Smokers Via Text Messaging Proves Effective For Cardiovascular Disease Battle
An innovative scheme using mobile technology to identify patients 'at risk' of developing CVD by effectively establishing smoking status has recently proved a great success for NHS Hammersmith and Fulham, London, England. |
New Report Recommends Strategies To Reduce Medical Resident Fatigue-Related Errors And Improve Training
Fatigued medical residents need protected sleep periods and increased supervision of work hour limits to improve patient safety and the training environment, according to a new Institute of Medicine report funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The report is the result of a 15-month study by an IOM committee that reviewed the relationship between residents' work schedules, their performance and the quality of care they provide. |
Prevention Of Fatigue-Related Errors Requires Revised Hours And Workloads For Medical Residents
A new report from the Institute of Medicine proposes revisions to medical residents' duty hours and workloads to decrease the chances of fatigue-related medical errors and to enhance the learning environment for these doctors in training. |
The AASM Will Actively Support IOM Recommendations That Both Enhance Patient Safety And Promote Quality Physician Training
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) commends the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (IOM) for its independent analysis of current duty-hour regulations for medical residents. The AASM will conduct a thorough review of the recommendations made in the IOM report, "Resident Duty Hours: Enhancing Sleep, Supervision, and Safety. |
Stress Proofing Your Christmas, UK
With Christmas just around the corner, the festive fun can often be overshadowed by stress. The pressures of Christmas shopping, time, money, and social demands can often lead to anxiety, sleep disturbances, headaches, loss of appetite and even poor concentration, all of which are symptoms of stress. Over time, stress can contribute towards heart disease, stroke and cancer so it's important that you take steps to manage it. |
Tasimelteon Shown To Help People Sleep Better And Shift The Internal Clock In Jet Lag/ Night Work, The Lancet
An Article reporting the results of phase II and III trials shows the drug tasimelteon to be effective for transient insomnia of the kind caused by night shift work and jet-lag. As such, this drug could be a first-line therapy for people burdened with the effects of travel across time zones or working at night. The Article, published Online first and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, is written by Dr Shantha M.W. |
Study Shows How Shift Workers Can Improve Job Performance And Implement A Realistic Sleep Schedule
A study in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that the use of light exposure therapy, dark sunglasses and a strict sleep schedule can help night-shift workers create a "compromise circadian phase position," which may result in increased performance and alertness during night shifts while still allowing adequate nighttime sleep on days off. Results show that performance was better for the experimental subjects than the controls. |
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