Hey folks, Scott Wangart here and this is the mcrit podcast today on the podcast. We're going to discuss again

Sleep we already did it a discussion on the

Sleep of shift workers with my buddies from wild health and that was out

I don't know I think a few months ago and I promised a follow-up episode that would be less dealing with shift work and sleep in general

Now why are we talking about sleep on a podcast about resuscitation and acute critical care?

Well the reason is for all of the people that practice in that we have the potential for sleep disruption and we have the

Real necessity because of the incredible cognitive load of our jobs to maximize our sleep now

That's not to say other specialties in medicine or other professions in general wouldn't benefit from having amazing sleep

but we really need it in the high-stress high cognitive

Necessity professions that listen to the mcrit podcast and I've been kind of obsessed with sleep for most of my adult life

Partially because I am one of the short-sleeping

genetic

people out there I

On the times in my life where I've been getting the best sleep ever

I've gotten maximum of six hours a night not because I you know, like I said, it's not that's when I've been at my

best

And I thrive on that if I could get six hours. I am like, you know, remarkable most of the time

It's it's between four to six hours and I function I really well on anything in that range now

But that does mean that if anything gets messed up and you tick below that four hour mark things go really really badly

I think far more so than someone who you generally would benefit from eight and who gets seven

Because you know, you just don't have time to cram in all of the sleep stages

Necessary to really make for restorative sleep if you only have four hours to work with and you wind up getting three hours and fifteen minutes

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