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The current practice of requiring doctors in training to duplicate work of many, even triple, changes results correspond to the power cuts, the effects of drinking several ounces of alcohol, according to a new study by the University of Michigan sleep researcher in the Journal of the American Medical Association published Run.
Depending on the type of medical or surgical care may choose to specialize, the young doctors spend anywhere from three to 12 years in education. The first year – the boarding school – is considered the most intense.
Thirty and four from Brown University Medical School pediatric residents completed standardized tests following two lists: one months from 44-hours a week in hospital without spending the night in the tasks and in the month of 90-hour week, including day shifts in the departments of the hospital or intensive care units, plus night shift once every four or five nights.
Alertness, attention
After the month to work longer, have been monitoring of medical attention and driving ability impaired. Their responses were tested in accordance with their performance after drinking three or four drinks alcoholic after a month of lighter duties.
"This growing evidence that sleep deprivation among medical residents deteriorate significantly its ability to meet, but it is important to note that we do not judge performance on specific tasks of doctors, "says J. Todd Arnedt, PhD, a psychologist, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry and neurology dream of the UM Medical School. Arnedt works at the Sleep Disorders Center at UM and is the center depression of the UM Sleep & Chronophysiology laboratory.
Three hours of sleep
Daily review and monitor sleep clock activity automatic wrist residents on heavy work shifts has much less sleep per night on average lighter than those with appointments during the period study.
In the 24 hours before the test day, residents in a light schedule slept an average of 6 hours and 37 minutes, compared with about 3 hours for residents on a fixed schedule.
The residents were tested four times in two separate sessions. Two tests were completed after working a month without night shifts, the light, the tests were given before and after consuming three to four drinks alcohol.
In the second session, which were tested on the day after a night shift at the end of the month came to work 90 hours per week. During this session, which was evaluated before and after drinking a placebo drink. Of main interest, the tests were carried out after drinking alcohol oo the placebo group.
Performance, effort
The researchers asked the residents, their achievements and efforts to evaluate the evidence. Ratings deterioration of the results were displaced from the month of heavy work compared with lists of light.
Residents rated their best effort, as after heavy work shifts compared to the slight changes to alcohol.
Elsewhere, residents rated their levels of sleepiness. During the heavy months of calls, he felt more tired than to light during the months of calls, including after drinking in the light of the week.
They were not allowed to naps day test or caffeine after noon. All tests were performed for 3 hours.
Reducing fatigue-related impairment
Most tests take place before new work-hour restrictions have been introduced by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education in 2003.
Residents are now subject to the following rules: a day of 80-hour working week time limit, a limit of 24 hours continuous uptime, on-call house no more than once every three nights a week and free of patient care and educational obligations. All requirements are more than four weeks on average.
The new regulations are "a good first step" Arnedt said, "but the solution to the problem is probably not as easy as it measures of intent to reduce hours of work, which is the goal the negative impact, "he said.
"Our study, like others before him, has concerns on the performance of sleep deprivation and junior doctors suggests that strategies to reduce the effects of fatigue is probably necessary, "said Arnedt.
Alcohol Reference
Arnedt and his colleagues are the first inhabitants of what doctors sleep deprivation and model comparison of alcohol, which is also used in other populations such as truck drivers to study. Both sleep deprivation and alcohol consumption affects the reaction time of a person, attention, insight, control and driving ability.
In a study by Harvard University, published earlier This year, the authors found that inmates are more likely a car accident or near – during the journey after a long shift.
Arnedt The team found that the skills in a driving simulator in the population, which after a change during the night working at the clinic at the end of a month of the heavy night, try deteriorated. The results of these studies indicate that the personal security of residents driving home after working all night, could be jeopardized.
"We must continue looking for simple strategies, practical and efficient hospitals and senior doctors to take to reduce sleep deprivation among residents, "says Arnedt.
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