Impact of shift duration on alertness among air-medical emergency care clinician shift workers.
P Daniel PattersonMatthew D WeaverMark A MarkosyanCharity G MooreFrank X GuyetteJack M DomanDenisse J SequeiraHoward A WermanDoug SwansonDavid HostlerJoshua LynchMegan A TemplinNigel L RozarioLindsey RussoLinda HinesKaren SweckerMichael S RunyonDaniel J BuyssePublished in: American journal of industrial medicine (2019)
Deficits in performance in the air-medical setting may be greatest during night shifts and proximal to waking from an intra-shift nap. Future research should examine alertness and performance throughout air-medical shifts, as well as investigate the timing and duration of intra-shift naps on outcomes.