Sleep in Aviation and Space

摘要: Aviation and space operations pose significant challenges to operational personnel in terms of routinely acquiring adequate restful sleep, because this, performance effectiveness often falls below optimal levels. Scheduling factors are typically at the root problem. Nonstandard work hours, night work, rotating shifts, extended duty periods frequently lead poorly timed sleep opportunities during which physiological inhibit one from obtaining quantity quality sleep. Conversely, occur times body is less well prepared sustain accurate consistent performance. Past efforts manage schedule-related problems have focused primarily on regulation hours; however, scientific findings over past 20–30 years demonstrated that proper fatigue management systems should instead focus ensuring obtained these fact sufficient duration quality. Recent advances both alertness modeling sleep/fatigue measurement techniques now be implemented ensure readiness aviation personnel.