Sleep Deprivation And its Impact on Doctors Doing Continuous Duties

Abstract

Continuous duties for 24 hours ,36 hours and even 48 hours are very common in medical college, tertiary care ,hospitals, icus, casualty op. many doctors are knowingly or unknowingly doing duties for years together with much difficulties, they burn themselves for their patients, but not getting adequate recognition in the form of money, awards and rewards but they get stress, burnout, diseases like hypertension obesity, diabetes and sleep disorders which result in decreased cognitive functions and adversely affect their performance There are no studies in India regarding sleep problems among doctors