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We are conditioned to work lots of overtime and second jobs, but recent studies done by Dan Patterson show how dangerous this can be. At what point does our health and patient care suffer from lack of sleep? How does your agency address this issue?

Show notes

Check out this article on Dan Patterson

Bob Sullivan at EMS Patient Perspective

Josh Knapp at WANTYNU

Even More Links on This

www.emsarn.org has Dan Patterson’s projects.

http://www.emsleadership.com/?p=30 is an early EMS Leadership episode that Dan was on.

Here are EMSBlog.com posts about sleep

http://roguemedic.com/2011/10/sleep-quality-and-fatigue-among-prehospital-providers/
http://tooldtowork.com/2011/12/and-ems-too/
http://emspatientperspective.com/2011/10/22/drunken-ambulance-drivers/