Aviation sleep loss

Gander PH, Nguyen D, Rosekind MR, Connel LJ. Age, circadian rhythms, and sleep loss in flight crews. Aviat Space Environ Med 1993 64 189-195. 

McMurray RG, Brown CF. The effect of sleep loss on high intensity exercise and recovery. Aviat Space Environ Med 1984 55 1031-1035. 

This study investigated the efficacy of using dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine ) as a countermeasure to deep loss during sustained operations in which it is impossible for persotmel to gain any restorative sleep for up to 40 hours. Although, previously published reports have proven that amphetamines are effective for enhancing performance and alertness (see Caldwell et al., 1994, for a review there had been no controlled aviation studies. However, there was evidence that amphetamines would effectively counter sleep loss and fotigue in aviation personnel. 

Thus, there was good reason to beheve that dextroamjdietamine would be an effective countermeasure for sleep loss in sustained aviation operations. However, because there were no controlled aviation studies, 12 sul ects (6 males and 6 females) were exposed to 2 periods of 40 hours of continuous wake-... 

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