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May 31, 2016

TRUCKERS' SLEEP APNEA * USA: STUDY

* Virginia - ATRI Survey: Sleep apnea studies costly to drivers

-- More than half of drivers who have been asked to participate in sleep apnea studies paid more than 150% of their median weekly pay to do so, a survey released by the American Transportation Research Institute on May 26 revealed... The survey of more than 800 drivers showed that 53% paid an average of $1,220 for some or all of the test costs. This compares with the median weekly paycheck of $805... More than 60% of drivers with no health care coverage for the sleep study incurred out-of-pocket costs exceeding $1,000, while less than one-third of drivers whose insurance covered some portion of the study had costs exceeding $1,000. What’s more, 41% of the drivers had to take a day to up to a month off to participate in sleep apnea screening... ATRI’s survey also reported that fewer than 2% of drivers who were diagnosed with moderate to severe sleep apnea didn’t adhere to their prescribed treatment. Use of a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure machine was the most commonly prescribed treatment regimen. Drivers diagnosed with severe sleep apnea who were treated with the machine reported increased sleep (84%), feeling better when they woke up (71%) and lower blood pressure (75%). Among those with a diagnosis of mild sleep apnea, only 32% reported improved sleep...
Arlington, VA, USA  - Transport Topics - 26 May 2016

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Mar 6, 2008

Asleep at the wheel... * UK - How tiredness was targeted as a killer on the road

Sleep expert Professor Jim Horne and his team were the first in the UK to recognise the real problem of falling asleep at the wheel

Yorkshire,UK -The Yorkshire Post, by Sheena Hastings -6 March 2008: -- Back in the early 1990s, accident report forms filled in by police didn't even have a question or box to be ticked concerning the sleepiness of a driver at the time of an incident... At around that time, sleep researchers at Loughborough University began working with Leicestershire and Cornwall police forces, analysing the circumstances of road crashes, and found that a fair chunk of them happened on mostly straight, boring roads in good weather conditions, where the driver was healthy and had not taken avoiding action before going over a white line and into a head-on collision... These sorts of accident tended to happen between midnight and 6am and 2-4pm – times when the body experiences a natural "circadian dip", and is likely to be sluggish and sleepy... As a result of research into driver sleepiness by Jim Horne and his team at Loughborough's Sleep Research Centre, the accident report form for all police forces changed to include a box querying whether officers "suspect sleepiness"... If the box is ticked, the force can call in the experts like Prof Horne to pinpoint whether the accident does indeed fit the criteria for SRVA (Sleep-Related Vehicle Accident)... It's now reckoned that sleepy drivers cause one in five motorway crashes and one in 10 of all road accidents in the UK... (Aftermath: The scene of the Great Heck crash in February 2001)

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