HONOLULU — Managing sleep adequately is important for health care workers, as a lack of it can lead to burnout, fatigue and potentially dangerous mistakes, according to a speaker at the CHEST Annual Meeting.
“Our sleep has a direct correlation on how we care for the patients,” Ritwick Agrawal, MD, FCCP, director of sleep medicine at Northwell Health and Huntington Hospital, said during his presentation. “Just like most of the general population, health care workers have underlying sleep disorders, but perhaps a little more compounded.”
These sleep disorders range