TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - The effect of fatigue on the performance of a simulated anesthetic monitoring task
JO  - Journal of clinical monitoring
A1  - Denisco, R. A.
A1  - Drummond, J. N.
A1  - Gravenstein, J. S.
SP  - 22
EP  - 24
VL  - 3
IS  - 1
N2  - In a simulated monitoring situation, 21 anesthesia residents were tested for their ability to detect significant changes in four critical variables in the presence of a concurrent distraction. Each resident was tested after a night without clinical responsibility (rested) and after 24 hours of in-house call (fatigued). When fatigued, the residents scored significantly worse on the vigilance test than when rested (57.2 +/- 15.4 versus 65.9 +/- 10.9, P less than 0.02). Despite the small population size, the possibility of subject and investigator bias, and the artificial setting, these results support the intuitive proposition that a fatigued person is less likely than a rested person to detect important changes in monitored variables.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1977
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -