Condition: Excessive Daytime Sleepiness · Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) · CPAP Treatment · Sponsor: Stefan Lakämper
In brief, the proposed study will evaluate a recently proposed naturalistic, driving simulation test to identify and measure sleepiness behind the wheel, one of the most underestimated causes of road accidents. The proposed test offers higher ecological validity and might complement somnological tests that are standard, but rarely performed. Thus, the test might provide traffic medicine and sonologists with an effective tool, that can also directly convey the risks of excessive daytime sleepiness to drivers and thus, in combination, effectively aid in traffic medicine's mandate to avoid preventable road fatalities. Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is a symptomatic condition resulting from too little or compromised sleep, caused by psycho-social stress (shiftwork, lifestyle) or medical conditions (obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), narcolepsy). Driving with untreated EDS might lead to sleepy/drowsy driving and microsleep, which is considered to be one of the highest-ranking causes of road accidents. Sleepiness and its dangers on the wheel might subjectively not be registered by the affected drivers. Also, subjective sleepiness might not correlate with somnological measurements that are also crucial for legally determining the fitness to drive (FTD). There exists a variety of partially complementary tools to evaluate the extent of EDS. Mean sleep latency obtained in the maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT) is widely, but not uniformly, considered to be one of the most objecti…
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Stefan Lakämper, Dr. rer. nat. · +41793789984 · stefan.lakaemper@irm.uzh.ch
Veronika Gambin, MSc · +41797149386 · veronika.gambin@irm.uzh.ch
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| Division of Traffic Medicine, Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich | Zurich, ZRH, Switzerland | Recruiting |
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