Bergen County Sleep Doctor

Jeffrey Salizzoni MD

Sleep Medicine and Pulmonary Medicine

Personalized Care with MDVIP

What Sleep Deprivation Does to Your Performance

Sleep deprivation leads to diminished ability to perform a task. It can lead to difficulties with problem solving planning, inhibition of certain behaviors, inability to sustain attention and slowed response times.

For example, one study showed the best reaction time of patients with sleep apnea is poorer of that of an individual who's blood alcohol level is greater than .08 g/dl and would prohibit them from driving in most U.S. states.

Drowsy Driving and Motor Vehicle Statistics

• There are at least 7,500 deaths due to fatigued drivers in the United States each year.
• Every 70 minutes there is a driving drowsy fatality.
• 250,000 drivers fall asleep at the wheel daily.
• There is a drowsy driving crash every 25 seconds and 1.2 million drowsy driving crashes each year.
• There are 55,000 debilitating injuries annually resulting from drowsy driving that include traumatic brain injury resulting in permanent and life changing neurologic disabilities such as paralysis, visual defect, permanent ringing in the ears, cognitive impairment and a decline in social and work function.

Don't become a motor vehicle statistic. See Dr. Salizzoni and get your wake promoting medication Provigil or Nuvigil when you qualify. The only safe driver is an alert driver.