Strategies to improve sleep during extended search and rescue operations

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-233

  Jenkins, Jennifer Lee ^a,b   Fredericksen, Kim ^a   Stone, Roger ^c   Tang, Nelson ^b  

^a Office of Critical Event Preparedness and Response   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Montgomery County Fire Department   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster; Field work; Pharmacological; Search and rescue; Sleep; Special operations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MASSAGE; MUSIC; RELAXATION TRAINING; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SLEEP; SLEEP TIME; UNITED STATES;

DATA COLLECTION; DISASTERS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MARYLAND; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESCUE WORK; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34047182116     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120701205182     Document Type: Article

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