sleeping disorder program (must watch)

Hi All,

My contribution to all of you.....I had done some research lately and glad to share some value information on sleeping disorders findings and events occureses....all are in real impacts highly valuable to further literate our understanding. This is very new program just released couple days ago. Enjoy the program (don't blink).

The prgram on sleep disordes link

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/ ... 000881.htm

The sleeping disorder video on demand.

http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_ ... efault.htm

Best Regards,
Mckooi

Excellent link, mckooi.

I particularly enjoyed watching both the interviews -- with Professor Dawson and Professor Czeisler.

Even though both professors were talking mainly about lack of sleep and didn't touch much on OSA until part of the interview with Czeisler, the interviews had a lot of valuable information about what lack of enough sleep can do to people.

PROFESSOR CHARLES A CZEISLER, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: In the United States 80,000 people a day fall asleep at the wheel, not per year, but 80,000 people a day fall asleep at the wheel. That's one person every second on average. And once every two minutes one of those people crashes.

Eighty thousand people a day in the U.S. -- fall asleep at the wheel while driving.

Think about that.

Again, I wish the interviews had put more stress on the possibility of OSA causing fatigue, and had urged people to seek a sleep study. But the interviews were very, very good.

Also interesting ... the "transcript" of one of the programs.

Good info. Thanks, mckooi !

If "Eyes Wide Open" is for insomnia, I guess "Eyes Sleeplessly Closed" would be for OSA .

Thank you, Mckooi . Those were very informative, high quality information.

Mckooi,
Thank you. Any information on sleep problems may benefit even OSA sufferers. It was certainly very interesting.

And, Rested Gal, that 80,000 number of eyes-closed drivers is beyond frightening. But, it's just the tip of the driving dangers 'berg.

Even more drivers are mentally asleep for a portion of their travel in a vehicle while their eyes are open. Most accidents are caused by drivers being mentally elsewhere, numbed, or mentally asleep and unable to be completely attentive to driving -- they're on auto-pilot, rote actions during the mechanical motions of driving, but substantially oblivious to much or most of their surroundings outside of the vehicle.

I can find it, and can't remember where I originally saw it some years ago, but an informal study was done by a company concerning workplace inefficiency caused by employee sleep problems.

At their normal once-a-week meetings survey tech's came in and immediately had everyone slip on a lightweight, long-sleeved, floor-length, ice blue, high-neck gown over their clothing. The temperature had been lowered to about 72-degrees in that space. Then a presentation was given about sleep insufficiency being a prime cause workplace errors, employee illnesses, absenteeism, tardiness and a host of other social, career and economic problems.

After 90-minutes of presentation they gave each employee a questionnaire to complete. Most questions dealt with the previous night, the morning as they readied for work, their travel to work and the clothing they had on when arriving at work. Over 40% of the employees could not accurately list and describe everything they wore or carried to work that day. Over 70% claimed that they often awoke still tired, or felt tired at work before mid-day. Several could not remember which vehicle they drove to work that day. And they were all white-collar workers -- none of the meeting participants had a physical-labor job.

I don't remember much else about it, but parts of it stuck in my mind.

Hi All,

I am glad that many of you had shared valuable information regarding this silent killer (OSA.....maybe not so silent since many of us are snorers). These video clips are highly informative and need to be passed on and help those SA sufferers. Can someone please help to creat a web link of these video programs in order for ease of finding it? Thank you once again especially goes to (RestedGirl-you are the angle, Norzy-your valuable experience and many orthers).

Best Regards
Mckooi

I watched them... found absolutely NOTHING "NEW" in watching those reports, a complete waste of time hearing the same information we have already heard over and over again.

Read the first paragraph of any OSA study and you have that in video form.

mckooi

After Snoredog's strong endorsement, I had to watch the video. Very interesting for the statistics and the focus on electronics as a problem in the bedroom for the young. Of course the best part is the clear place the medical community holds as the poster child of structured sleep deprivation abuse among interns and doctors. No wonder they check for sleep issues last for patients with all the symtoms. Thanks for the link.

Daddysaur wrote:Of course the best part is the clear place the medical community holds as the poster child of structured sleep deprivation abuse among interns and doctors. No wonder they check for sleep issues last for patients with all the symtoms.

Ain't that the truth!

I wish the interviewees had put more emphasis on OSA as a possible/probable cause of not getting restorative sleep, no matter how much or how little people "sleep."

I found both interviews very interesting. There can never be too much information out there about sleep issues in general.

If such programs cause even one doctor, or one company manager, or one everyday person to think more seriously about the impact of lack of sleep and dig into the subject more, that's another step in the right direction.

Again, thanks to mckooi for the links.

Nodzy, how interesting about the ice blue gown presentation/questionnaire/survey thing. Fascinating, isn't it, this sleep stuff?

[quote="Snoredog"]I watched them... found absolutely NOTHING "NEW" in watching those reports, a complete waste of time hearing the same information we have already heard over and over again.

Read the first paragraph of any OSA study and you have that in video form.

[quote="split_city"][quote="Snoredog"]I watched them... found absolutely NOTHING "NEW" in watching those reports, a complete waste of time hearing the same information we have already heard over and over again.

Read the first paragraph of any OSA study and you have that in video form.

Snoredog wrote:

But those two videos don't say a single thing new in their message that hasn't been already been delivered by someone else in the sleep industry, so WHY are they a MUST SEE? because you or your buddy from down under did them?

I didn't realise that I said the video was a MUST SEE . Just because you didn't find it useful doesn't mean others feel the same way. I'm sure others would be gratetful that their medical condition (regardless of the content) was represented in the media.

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split_city wrote:

Snoredog wrote:

But those two videos don't say a single thing new in their message that hasn't been already been delivered by someone else in the sleep industry, so WHY are they a MUST SEE? because you or your buddy from down under did them?

I didn't realise that I said the video was a MUST SEE . Just because you didn't find it useful doesn't mean others feel the same way. I'm sure others would be gratetful that their medical condition (regardless of the content) was represented in the media.

nor did I say must watch...another poster started this thread