Sleep need definition

IV. The Concepts and Definitions of Sleep Need, Sleep Debt, and Extra Sleep. 559... 

The second doctor, insisted on prescribing 300 milligrams of trazodone to help me sleep. Yet she would tell me if you can t sleep after taking 300, after twenty minutes take a fourth [pill]. So at the end of the month, inevitably I d have to call her up and say I need another few more pills, So then after a while she starts barking at me because I m requesting more pills. And it s not my fault, I mean, I need them, And [finally] I told her I didn t want her as my doctor anymore.. .. She was out. She was definitely out. (unemployed female, aged 58)... 

The world has evolved significantly, and with it, the need for RTC Ops to meet societal demands. Our traditional views, concepts, terminology, and data on shift work and occupational requirements no longer fully reflect the dramatic changes that are now commonplace in our society. Examining the role and effects of sleep loss in occupational settings requires an evolved definition that more accurately reflects the RTC Ops that pervade the modem workforce. 

This definition posits Gnosticism as centrally concerned with the myth of the soul s enslavement to fate and its awakening from the state of existential sleep and enslavement. The Messina definition was very much a product of its time, but at this point we need to re-evaluate its usefulness and accuracy. 

In conclusion, although several theories exist, there are currently no studies on negative predictive value (NPV) or NIPPV that have provided definitive evidence that the benefits in gas exchange were related to improvements in respiratory muscle function or in sleep efficiency. The relationship between improved gas exchange and hyperinflation needs further investigation. The restoration of the central drive to breathe is the most consistent finding. It is therefore important in any evaluation of NIPPV to be confident that nocturnal hypoventilation has been reduced. 

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