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SGEM#399: I’m So Tired – Emergency Medicine and Fatigue

The Skeptics Guide to Emergency Medicine

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The Effects of Caffeine on Sleep Quality in Emergency Physicians

There's not all that much published objective data like this. Do the results of this study fit with other available evidence? Yeah I don't think there's much doubt the physicians spend some percentage of their shifts in a fatigue state. And were the Ready Band's provided by the company? No. We received funding, this was a seed grant through the Prisma Health Sciences Center for collaboration between Clemson University, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Prisma Health. But these these were emergency physicians so I assume the caffeine level was always above therapeutic.

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