To sleep or not to sleep, that is the question.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1016/j.jvs.2010.01.036.
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Abstract
The chief of surgery finds a recently boarded vascular surgeon, Dr B.R. Ash, on the couch in the doctor's lounge where a resident is trying to awaken him for permission to start the elective schedule. Dr Ash had finished an arduous all-nighter emergency case less than an hour ago and mumbles for the resident to proceed. The chief surgeon knows that the case about to be started is a type IV thoracoabdominal aneurysm repair to be followed by a carotid endarterectomy.
Medical subject headings
- After-Hours Care
- Clinical Competence
- Operating Rooms
- Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
- Sleep
- Vascular Surgical Procedures
- Wakefulness
- Workload