Editors:
Systematically approaches the screening, treatment, and management of all factors contributing to fatigue and the workplace
Useful tool for Corporate Safety Officers, regulatory officials, and clinicians involved with reducing fatigue in order to improve work place safety
Explores assessment tools that can be used readily in workplace to identifuy the individuals affected by fatigure and sleep deprivation
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
In this soon-to-be gold-standard text, a distinguished panel of experts provides a comprehensive discussion of the various medical, neurological, psychiatric, and psychological factors underlying fatigue and sleepiness in the workplace and in patients. In reviewing current best practices in managing fatigue and sleepiness conditions to improve workplace safety, the book importantly begins with an overview of fatigue’s definitions and concepts. It then moves into discussing the historical perspective on sleepiness and fatigue, the definitions and classifications of fatigue, and assessments of fatigue in the laboratory and in clinical settings. The book continues by exploring medical causes of fatigue in detail; how medication and recreational agents may result in fatigue; and the treatment of sleep disorders. Additional topics include best practices in the treatment of narcolepsy and hypersomnia, a review of circadian rhythm and fatigue, the treatment of heart failure and improvement in fatigue, and the management of fatigue in hospitalized patients. A major contribution to the field, this invaluable title will be of significant interest to all clinicians concerned with safeguarding safety in the workplace by accurately diagnosing and managing patients with fatigue and sleepiness problems. Researchers will also find this title of great interest.
Keywords
- Assessing Sleep Duration
- Circadian Rhythm Disorders
- Etiology of Sleepiness and Fatigue
- Fatigue
- Fatigue Management Programs
- Fatigue and the Law
- Fatigue in Heart and Lung Disease patients
- Laboratory Assessment of Sleep and Fatigue
- Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnias
- Sleep Deprivation
- Sleep Disorders
- Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
- Toxicological Assessment
- Workforce issues
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA
Amir Sharafkhaneh
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Division of Public Mental Health and Population Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Max Hirshkowitz
About the editors
Amir Sharafkhaneh, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center
Department of Medicine
Houston, Texas, USA
Max Hirshkowitz, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX 77030
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fatigue Management
Book Subtitle: Principles and Practices for Improving Workplace Safety
Editors: Amir Sharafkhaneh, Max Hirshkowitz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8607-1
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-8605-7Published: 24 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-9341-3Published: 10 December 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-8607-1Published: 23 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 226
Number of Illustrations: 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Psychiatry, Neurology, Pneumology/Respiratory System