| Ten years ago, a former colleague of
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| | disordered breathing, commonly known as
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| mine, a fine teacher and person, was
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| | sleep apnea, affects 15 million people in
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| tragically killed in a car accident in
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| | the United States. This condition,
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| British Columbia. He was on vacation with
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| | characterized by suffocation and oxygen
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| his daughter who miraculously survived
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| | deprivation which wake the subjects up
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| the accident. What happened was a classic
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| | several times in the course of the night,
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| case of sleep deprivation: my friend was
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| | is responsible for daytime sleepiness and
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| anxious to make his way to a chosen
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| | fatigue. Put these subjects on the
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| destination and despite his fatigue and
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| | highway and we have a recipe for
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| the fact that he had been on the road for
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| | disastrous traffic accidents.Perhaps an
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| over 6 hours, he made the decision to
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| | examination of the influence sleep
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| drive through the night. He never made it
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| | deprivation has on our mental acuity and
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| there.That there is a direct correlation
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| | performance level can shed light on how
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| between sleep deprivation and traffic
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| | we can protect ourselves and others from
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| accidents cannot be disputed. In 1998,
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| | the disastrous consequences of sleep
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| 24,318 deaths were cited from accidents
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| | fatigue.What happens to you when you are
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| related to sleep deprivation in the US.
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| | sleep deprived? According to the Traffic
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| There were as well 2, 474,430 disabling
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| | Research Center, these are the influences
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| injuries resulting from accidents where
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| | of sleep deprivation on performance:a)
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| decreased mental efficiency and
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| | Slower reaction time: sleeplessness slows
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| attentiveness due to sleep loss was the
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| | down your reflexes; reaction time slows
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| major causative factor. In fact, a major
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| | down, preventing you from stopping in
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| review conducted in 1996 suggested that
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| | times of danger.b) Decrease in
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| the oil spill of the Exxon Valdez, the
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| | concentration levels: When you are overly
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| destruction of the space shuttle
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| | tired, your attention span decreases.
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| Challenger, the nuclear accident at
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| | Most people are subject to a decrease in
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| Chernobyl( costing over 50,000 lives) and
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| | attention every 90-120 minutes; however,
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| the near nuclear accidents at the Three
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| | sleepiness makes this decrease even worse
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| Mile Island and Peach Bottom reactors
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| | and it can cause accidents when you fall
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| were all associated with sleep
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| | asleep at the wheel.c) Disorder in
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| deprivation of the personnel
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| | information processing: Sleepiness is
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| involved.Sleep deprivation is often
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| | very much like being under the influence
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| caused by sleep disorders which are
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| | of alcohol or drugs. When you are sleepy,
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| unknown to the subjects themselves. Sleep
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| | your mental and psychomotor skills
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| apnea, for example, is a common cause for
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| | diminish. In one study, a group of
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| sleep deficit. A study at the Sleep
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| | subjects were kept awake for 28 hours;
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| Disorders and Research Center of Stanford
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| | another group was given alcoholic drinks
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| University Medical School showed that
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| | every half hour. When both groups were
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| truck drivers identified with sleep
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| | tested for hand-eye coordination, the
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| disordered breathing had a two-fold
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| | ones who were sleep deprived performed
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| higher accident rate than drivers without
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| | equally bad as the ones with 0.5 blood
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| sleep-disordered breathing. Sleep
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| | alcohol level.
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