Description
Successfully review sleep medicine whether you plan to improve your sleep medicine competency skills or prepare for the Sleep Medicine Certification Exam with this expanded review-and-test workbook that includes more than 1,400 interactive questions and answers. Now in full color throughout, Review of Sleep Medicine, 4th Edition, by Dr. Alon Y. Avidan, features a new, high-yield format designed to help you make the most of your study time, using figures, polysomnography tracings, EEG illustrations, sleep actigraphy and sleep diaries, tables, algorithms, and key points to explain challenging topics.- Includes concise summaries of all aspects of sleep medicine clinical summaries from epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnostic techniques, treatment strategies and prognostic implications.- Provides a library of assessment questions with comprehensive explanations to help you identify the reasoning behind each answer and think logically about the problems.- Offers the expertise of a multidisciplinary global team of experts including sleep researchers, multispecialty sleep clinicians, and educators. The unique strength of this educational resource is its inclusion of all sleep subspecialties from neurology to pulmonary medicine, psychiatry, internal medicine, clinical psychology, and Registered Polysomnographic Technologists.- Perfect for sleep medicine practitioners, sleep medicine fellows and trainees, allied health professionals, nurse practitioners, sleep technologists, and other health care providers as review tool, quick reference manual, and day-to-day resource on key topics in sleep medicine.- Provides a highly effective review with a newly condensed, outline format that utilizes full-color tables, figures, diagrams, and charts to facilitate quick recall of information.- Includes new and emerging data on the function and theories for why we sleep, quality assessment in sleep medicine, and benefits and risks of sleep-inducing medications.- Contains new chapters on sleep stage scoring, sleep phylogenic evolution and ontogeny, geriatric sleep disorders and quality measures in sleep medicine.- Features an expanded online question bank with 1,400 questions and answers that mimic the ABMS sleep exam in style and format.
Table of Contents
Section I: Sleep Medicine Exam Preparation1. Introduction to Sleep Medicine Section II: Highlights of Normal Sleep2. Sleep Phylogenic Evolution and Ontogeny3. Normal Human Sleep Wake Patterns4. Highlights of Sleep Neuroscience5. Normal Sleep Physiology (Including Respiratory and Cardiac Physiology)6. Genetics in Sleep Medicine7. Introduction to Evaluation Tools Used in Sleep Medicine8. An Overview of Polysomnography9. Sleep Stage Scoring Section III: Synopsis of Sleep Disorders10. Sleep Deprivation11. The Insomnias12. Narcolepsy and Hypersomnias of Central Origin: Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment13. Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders: Clinical Features and Evaluation14. Treatment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing15. Circadian Rhythm Disorders16. Diagnosis and Treatment of Parasomnias17. Sleep-Related Movement Disorders18. Overview of Electrocephalography and Epilepsy19. Sleep and Neurological Disorders20. Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders21. Sleep in Medical Disorders and Special Populations22. Pediatric Sleep-Wake Disorders23. Synopsis of Geriatric Sleep Disorders24. Cardiac Monitoring and Scoring in Polysomnography25. Pharmacotherapy of Common Sleep Promoting Agents26. Medication Effects on Sleep27. Overview of Sleep Practive ParametersSection IV: Testing Knowledge in Sleep Medicine: Practice Exams28. Mechanism and Disorders of Circadian Physiology29. Tools in Clinical Sleep Medicine30. Practice Examination—Pediatric Sleep Disorders31. Cardiology in Sleep Medicine32. Pulmonary Sleep Clinical Case Studies33. Psychiatry Clinical Case Studies34. Insomnia Clinical Pearls and Case Studies35. Neurology in Sleep Medicine: Polysomnography Case-Based Assessment36. Hypersomnia Case Studies37. Clinical Cases: Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders38. REM and Non-REM Parasomnias39. Seizures and Sleep40. Sleep Related Movement Disorders41. Sleep and Medical Disorders, and Special Populations42. Sleep Pharmacology43. Polysomnography Pearls44. Sleep Stage Scoring45. Artifacts46. The Use of Statistics in Sleep Medicine—Exam Questions47. Knowing your Sleep Practice Parameters48. Quality Measures in Sleep Medicine49. Normal Sleep Patterns50. Mechanisms of Sleep NeuroscienceAppendices- Statistics in Medicine- Cardiac Arrhythmias- Statistics for Clinical Trials and Audit- Horne-Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire
