Zolpidem in fatigue management for surge operations of remotely piloted aircraft

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 553-555

  Van Camp, Roscoe O ^a  

^a USAF   (United States)

Author keywords

Aviation; Fatigue; MQ1; Predator; Sleep; UAS; UAV

Indexed keywords

ZOLPIDEM; ZOLPIDEM TARTRATE;

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ABNORMAL SLEEP BEHAVIOR; AIRCRAFT; AIRPLANE CREW; ARTICLE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFECT; FATIGUE; HANGOVER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; WORK SCHEDULE;

ADULT; FATIGUE; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; MILITARY PERSONNEL; PYRIDINES; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDERS, CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; UNITED STATES; WAR;

EID: 66949116376     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3357/ASEM.2460.2009     Document Type: Article

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