Excessive daytime sleepiness and driving: regulations for road safety
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Excessive daytime sleepiness and driving: regulations for road safety.
Individuals who fall asleep at the wheel usually do so because they are sleep deprived. It is likely that they are aware of the circumstances leading to sleepiness and of feeling sleepy before the event. Nevertheless, sleepiness sufficient to cause or contribute to an accident may involve a disorder of sleep, and little attention has been given to such disorders in the consideration of accident...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1470-2118,1473-4893
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.4-5-454