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It is well known that drinking alcohol disrupts sleep. “Excessive alcohol use, or even social drinking can regularly disturb sleep and reduce its restorative amount and quality,” says O’Malley.
Treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) relies on identifying and treating the underlying disorder which may cure the person from the EDS. Drugs like modafinil , [ 22 ] armodafinil , [ 23 ] pitolisant [ 24 ] (Wakix), sodium oxybate (Xyrem) oral solution, have been approved as treatment for EDS symptoms in the United States.
Idiopathic hypersomnia (IH) is a neurological disorder which is characterized primarily by excessive sleep and excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS). [1] Idiopathic hypersomnia was first described by Bedrich Roth in 1976, and it can be divided into two forms: polysymptomatic and monosymptomatic.
Narcolepsy is a chronic neurological disorder that impairs the ability to regulate sleep–wake cycles, and specifically impacts REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. [1] The pentad symptoms of narcolepsy include excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), sleep-related hallucinations, sleep paralysis, disturbed nocturnal sleep (DNS), and cataplexy. [1]
On 1 April 2001, the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust merged with the Northern General Hospital NHS Trust to create the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which was later awarded Foundation status on 1 July 2004. [6]
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, established 1 November 1991 as Airedale NHS Trust, [2] authorised as a foundation trust on 1 June 2010. [3]Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, established 21 December 1990 as Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital and Community Services NHS Trust, [4] changed its name to The Royal Liverpool Children's National Health Service Trust on 15 March 1996, [5 ...
The Trust was named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time, it had 2511 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 3.25%. 65% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 64% recommended it as a place to work.
The facility, which was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, opened as the Kettering Union Workhouse in 1838. [1] An infirmary was added to the east of the main building in the mid-1890s. [ 1 ] It became St Helen's Hospital in 1935 and joined the National Health Service as St Mary's Hospital in 1948. [ 2 ]