title: [Sleepiness and accidental risk].
abstract: Sleepiness while driving is both a very common phenomena regarding 10 to 15% of drivers and one of the main causes of death on highways (one third of fatal accidents). Sleepiness results mainly from behavioural causes: sleep deficit or irregular work schedules. However, many sleep diseases and hypnotics may also induce sleepiness at the wheel. Several objective and subjective measures have been validated to assess sleepiness. Road safety and information to the drivers have now to focus on better informing drivers on the rules of preventing sleepiness at the wheel in order to avoiding hundred of accidents in the next future.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris-Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, hôtel Dieu, AP-HP, centre du sommeil et de la vigilance, EA 7330 Vifasom, 75181 Paris cedex, France. Electronic address: damien.leger@htd.aphp.fr.
authors.forename: Damien
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Léger
authors.affiliation: Université Paris-Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité, hôtel Dieu, AP-HP, centre du sommeil et de la vigilance, EA 7330 Vifasom, 75181 Paris cedex, France.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ement
mesh_terms: D000063:Accidents, Traffic / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology; D001334:Automobile Driving / Q000523:psychology; D005221:Fatigue / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D012892:Sleep Deprivation / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology