Associate Professor University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Description: Poor sleep and work-related fatigue impact most, if not all EMS clinicians. Shift work is not going away, which means that EMS leaders must identify and implement strategies that can mitigate fatigue and improve the health and safety of EMS clinicians. Recent reviews of the best available evidence point to a number of different strategies that EMS leaders can adopt and tailor to their needs. The goal of this presentation is to summarize the best available evidence for fatigue mitigation, outline evidence-based strategies, and discuss how implementation and tailoring may help to mitigate (not eliminate) fatigue in the EMS workplace.
Learning Objectives:
To gain awareness of what is known and not known about EMS operations and how EMS work contributes to fatigue and poor sleep in the workplace.
To gain awareness of the 2018 Evidence Based Guidelines for Fatigue Risk Mitigation, and learn about what has recently been discovered as potentially new strategies for individuals and employers.
To discuss case examples of fatigue in the workplace and how tailoring of strategies to fit unique workplace characteristics is needed in order mitigate fatigue and poor sleep.
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