Sleep Deprivation and Professionals

Paper Summary:

Firefighters, military personnel and doctors have some of the most challenging professions in the world. As these honorable heroes fight to save lives, they often do so at the expense of one of the vital necessities of life, adequate rest. But does this affect their reactions, skills and performance in their absolute life or death duties? This paper discusses and analyzes the physical and mental affects of sleep deprivation, focusing primarily on how sleep deprivation can make skilled professionals' performance in these essential positions suffer. It is the contention of this paper that sleep deprivation has the near equivalent affect of being legally intoxicated.

Paper Outline:
Introduction
Physiological Affects
Sleep Deprivation and Emergency Personnel
Doctors
Firefighters
Case Study
Conclusion
Bibliography

From the Paper:

"As stated, people find concentration, creativity, physical activity, as well as disease recovery (immune suppression from sleeplessness) more difficult as they become more sleep deprived. The body's reaction to sleep deprivation is to turn off certain essential functions of the brain, resulting in lessened efficiency in most life tasks. The question that remains is how do professionals in life saving and emergency positions deal with sleep deprivation, and why have officials not yet emphasized the importance of sleep for job function, as they have drugs and alcohol?"

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