Sleep and Modeled Performance of Arctic Patrollers during Operation Nunalivut 2010

• Main Authors: Paul, Michel A, Bouak, Fethi
• Other Authors: DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TORONTO (CANADA)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Anatomy and Physiology; Military Forces and Organizations; *MILITARY FORCES(FOREIGN); *SLEEP; ARCTIC REGIONS; CANADA; COGNITION; DAILY OCCURRENCE; FATIGUE(PHYSIOLOGY); PATROLLING; PERCEPTION(PSYCHOLOGY); SCHEDULING; FOREIGN REPORTS; FAST(FATIGUE AVOIDANCE SCHEDULING TOOL); ARCTIC PATROLLERS; WASCO(WAKE AFTER SLEEP ONSET); Arctic; Canada; Canadian Forces Station Alert; inuit
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA557356; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA557356

The goal of this work was to monitor sleep (via wrist actigraphs) in Arctic Patrollers and generate cognitive effectiveness models for each patroller using a program called Fatigue Avoidance Scheduling Tool (FASTTM). Actigraphic data were collected from 23 Arctic patrollers of whom 3 were Inuit Rang...