Intubation success rates by air ambulance personnel during 12- versus 24-hour shifts: Does fatigue make a difference?

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 340-343

  Allen, Todd L ^a,b,c   Delbridge, Theodore R ^a,b,c   Stevens, Mark H ^a,b,c   Dederia, Nicholas ^a,b,c  

^a LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c STAT MedEvac   (United States)

Author keywords

Air ambulances; Fatigue; Intratracheal; Intubation; Medical errors; Shift length; Sleep deprivation

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; MEDICAL PERSONNEL; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SHIFT WORKER; SKILL; SLEEP DEPRIVATION;

EID: 0034788216     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120190939481     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. The occupational risk of motor vehicle collisions for emergency medicine residents
2. Rotating shiftwork schedules: Can we enhance physician adaptation to night shifts?
3. Effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive ability and skills of pediatric residents
4. Epidemiology of medical error
5. Implications of task-induced fatigue effects for in-vehicle countermeasures to driver fatigue
6. Air traffic controller shiftwork: What are the implications for aviation safety? A review
7. Quantifying the performance impairment associated with fatigue
8. Neurobehavioral effects of the on-call experience in housestaff physicians
9. The effect of fatigue, sleep deprivation and onerous working hours on the physical and mental wellbeing of pre-registration house officers
10. Sleep deprivation and resident performance
11. Performing while sleepy: Effects of experimentally induced sleepiness
12. Effect of sleep deprivation on surgeons' dexterity on laparoscopy simulator