Introduction
Acute and chronic sleep deprivation leads to reduced vigilance, motor discoordination, and impaired cognitive function, thereby increasing the risk of errors in the workplace. Specifically, psychomotor performance after 24 hours of continuous wakefulness is similar to that of persons with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10%, a level consistent with legal intoxication in many jurisdictions.[1] Increased sleepiness and poorer neurobehavioral performance are associated with less than 5 to 6 hours of time in bed, even for a single night.2 Increasingly, evidence3 indicates that sleep deprivation in health care professionals adversely affects performance and may have adverse effects on patient and occupational safety