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Compensating for the Effects of Lost and Disrupted Sleep When signs of degradation begin to appear, the following may alleviate the impact (methods for improving wakefulness may also apply): a. Promote or enforce the ‘mateship’ system where soldiers team up to do tasks, check and double check each other and permit napping. b. Let members most affected by sleep loss do tasks which are self-paced. Sleep loss has less impact on these types of tasks as opposed to tasks that are work-paced. c. Encourage soldiers to write down tasks or messages received and have others check that it has been written down clearly and legibly. d. Adopt a ‘brief back’ procedure to confirm understanding. e. Cross check calculations and decision processes and verify targets. f. Organise the daily workload after a period of sleep to allow for mainly ‘mental' tasks to be completed before ‘physical’ tasks. g. Develop written checklists for Standing Operating Procedures for use when levels of fatigue are likely to degrade memory and performance. h. Give priority of sleep to personnel who have critical tasks, whose role or tasks make them more vulnerable to sleep loss, or who are showing that they are more severely affected by fatigue. i. Evaluate the feasibility of establishing separate day and night fighting/operations teams. After battle, sleep is best. Roden B. Wriothesley Noel, The Old, circa 1880 Post-combat Recuperation Recovery: Rules of Thumb Hours of SusOps 24 - 36 36 - 48 48+ Hours of Sleep 4 6 10 The aim of fatigue management, in this phase, is to regain combat effectiveness as quickly as possible. The best way to deal with fatigue is to allow time to rest, and most importantly, sleep. Without this time, physical and mental recovery will not fully occur. Resting or lying down is not enough; sleep must be taken. Sleep is the only effective remedy for sleep loss. 85
The men are, of course, very sleepy... but every hour that we are left unmolested is improving their condition. Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash noting the condition of A.I.F. Troops cited in Geoffrey Serle's John Monash: A Biography, 1982 Fortunately, small amounts of sleep, compared to actual sleep loss, can dramatically improve performance. After 24 hours of SusOps, four hours of uninterrupted sleep should promote adequate recovery. This time may be insufficient if subsequent mental performance, as opposed to physical performance, is required. Following 36 to 48 hours of SusOps, a block of at least six hours of sleep should be allowed for recovery. After 48 hours or more of sustained operations, personnel should be allowed to sleep until ‘spontaneous’ awakening or for up to 10 hours. Longer periods of sleep are not recommended as sleep ‘drunkenness’ and disruption to circadian rhythm may occur. For similar reasons, further sleep periods should not occur for at least 12 hours. If exhaustion is severe, watch for unsafe sleeping practices. Soldiers may fall asleep in potentially dangerous locations. Attempt to provide supervision especially if vehicles are in the area. Next morning I woke in quiet calm, restored by the miracle of sleep. We had reached Menari before the Japanese, and my fears had been the creatures of exhaustion. Henry Steward Recollections of a Regimental Medical Officer, 1983 86
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