-Working on a unit that goes non-stop in a 24 hours or similar shift?

-Have no time for a break, meals or genuine rest because your EMS unit or apparatus is THAT busy?

-Have to make "quick" decisions such as drug administering? Tactical decisions? Steering? Stopping?

-Staying up late at night playing video games, watching TV or doing other stuff instead of resting for the next run?

-Working a regular job and then on call at your volunteer FD, making runs all night long, and then back to work in the morning?

Sounds like some FD and EMS units.

Did you know that if you have been awake for 24 hours, you perform at the same level as someone who has a 0.10 percent blood-alcohol content, high enough to qualify as a drunk driver in all 50 states? That awakening fact is according to studies conducted in Australia, Switzerland, Austria, England and other countries. HERE IS MORE: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39214056/ns/us_news

Get some rest. Seriously. Of course, it may not be that simple.