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...fatigue and drowsiness. “When you’ve been awake for 24 hours, you are just as impaired as if you had a blood alcohol level of 0.1 percent,” said the Medical School’s Baldino Professor of Sleep Medicine, Charles A. Czeisler. But sleeping regular hours isn’t enough to make up for a lack of sleep, the panel said in response to a student’s question about training the body to sleep less. Just as the body cannot be trained to flourish on 800 calories...
...front of common room televisions to watch medical residents on ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” sleeping around, a new Harvard study casts doubt on whether the characters’ real-life counterparts are sleeping much at all. Charles A. Czeisler ’74, the Baldino professor of sleep medicine, has coauthored a report published this week in the Public Library of Science Medicine that highlights the adverse effects of extended-duration shifts on residents working in hospitals. According to the report, residents who work just one “marathon?...
...productivity and damage to workers' health and safety. An estimated 80,000 drivers a day, for example, doze off while behind the wheel. And supporting those exhausted legions creates even more of them. "People expect to pull in at Starbucks at 5 a.m. to get coffee," says Dr. Charles Czeisler of Harvard's Brigham & Women's Hospital. "But the one who prepares it is setting...
...guide you down the primrose path of Red Bull and Rockstar to show you what drink of choice will help you stay awake over those textbooks. Unlike heroin, caffeine is best used when ingested in small doses throughout the night. According to a study co-authored by Charles A. Czeisler, a professor of sleep medicine at the Medical School, frequent, small amounts of caffeine can help maintain cognitive abilities for extended periods. On average, a cup of brewed coffee from the dining hall contains about 100 milligrams (mg) of caffeine, as opposed to an 8.2 ounce can of Red Bull...
...data indicate that the tradition of working 30-hour shifts may be the Achilles heel of the medical education system,” said Czeisler, who is also the senior author of both studies, a title given to the head of the laboratory in which the work is conducted. “We are subjecting patients to increased hazards, impairing the ability of the interns to learn and potentially subjecting the intern to health and safety risks...