OSA & Driving

Ashleigh Filtness
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Sleepiness Fatigue Transport Safety

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and daytime driver sleepiness was the topic of my Ph.D (2011). In a series of driving simulator investigations this work demonstrated that OSA patients who have been using continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment for at least 1 year show no difference in performance at driving in a simulator than healthy controls. However, OSA patients were more vulnerable to sleep loss, and without their CPAP treatment driving performance was significantly impaired compared to drivers of a similar age without OSA.

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Ashleigh Filtness
Ashleigh Filtness
Professor of Transport Human Factors and Sleep Science

Publications

One night’s CPAP withdrawal in otherwise compliant OSA patients: marked driving impairment but good awareness of increased sleepiness

Purpose:

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) patients effectively treated by and compliant with continuous positive air pressure (CPAP) …

Ashleigh J Filtness, Louise A Reyner, James A Horne
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Moderate sleep restriction in treated older male OSA participants: greater impairment during monotonous driving compared with controls

Objectives

To examine the effects on monotonous driving of normal sleep versus one night of sleep restriction in continuous positive …

Ashleigh J Filtness, Louise A Reyner, James A Horne
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