Review of Sleep Medicine,

Edition 4

Editors: By Alon Y. Avidan, MD, MPH

Publication Date: 01 Sep 2017

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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 online. 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. The text is fully searchable online and features hundreds of interactive questions and answers in study and timed practice modes, making this the ideal resource for ABSM exam preparation.

Key Features

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
Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, videos, and references from the book on a variety of devices

About the author

By Alon Y. Avidan, MD, MPH, Director, UCLA Sleep Disorders CenterProfessor, UCLA Department of NeurologyPast Chair, Faculty Executive CommitteeDavid Geffen School of Medicine at UCLAUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USA

Section I: Sleep Medicine Exam Preparation
1. Introduction to Sleep Medicine

Section II: Highlights of Normal Sleep
2. Sleep Phylogenic Evolution and Ontogeny
3. Normal Human Sleep Wake Patterns
4. Highlights of Sleep Neuroscience
5. Normal Sleep Physiology (Including Respiratory and Cardiac Physiology)
6. Genetics in Sleep Medicine
7. Introduction to Evaluation Tools Used in Sleep Medicine
8. An Overview of Polysomnography
9. Sleep Stage Scoring

Section III: Synopsis of Sleep Disorders
10. Sleep Deprivation
11. The Insomnias
12. Narcolepsy and Hypersomnias of Central Origin: Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment
13. Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders: Clinical Features and Evaluation
14. Treatment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing
15. Circadian Rhythm Disorders
16. Diagnosis and Treatment of Parasomnias
17. Sleep-Related Movement Disorders
18. Overview of Electrocephalography and Epilepsy
19. Sleep and Neurological Disorders
20. Sleep and Psychiatric Disorders
21. Sleep in Medical Disorders and Special Populations
22. Pediatric Sleep-Wake Disorders
23. Synopsis of Geriatric Sleep Disorders
24. Cardiac Monitoring and Scoring in Polysomnography
25. Pharmacotherapy of Common Sleep Promoting Agents
26. Medication Effects on Sleep
27. Overview of Sleep Practive Parameters

Section IV: Testing Knowledge in Sleep Medicine: Practice Exams
28. Mechanism and Disorders of Circadian Physiology
29. Tools in Clinical Sleep Medicine
30. Practice Examination—Pediatric Sleep Disorders
31. Cardiology in Sleep Medicine
32. Pulmonary Sleep Clinical Case Studies
33. Psychiatry Clinical Case Studies
34. Insomnia Clinical Pearls and Case Studies
35. Neurology in Sleep Medicine: Polysomnography Case-Based Assessment
36. Hypersomnia Case Studies
37. Clinical Cases: Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders
38. REM and Non-REM Parasomnias
39. Seizures and Sleep
40. Sleep Related Movement Disorders
41. Sleep and Medical Disorders, and Special Populations
42. Sleep Pharmacology
43. Polysomnography Pearls
44. Sleep Stage Scoring
45. Artifacts
46. The Use of Statistics in Sleep Medicine—Exam Questions
47. Knowing your Sleep Practice Parameters
48. Quality Measures in Sleep Medicine
49. Normal Sleep Patterns
50. Mechanisms of Sleep Neuroscience

Appendices
Statistics in Medicine
Cardiac Arrhythmias
Statistics for Clinical Trials and Audit
Horne-Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire

Title Reviews

"This is an outstanding sleep medicine review book. It serves as an in-depth introduction to sleep medicine and it includes an excellent "test your knowledge" group of chapters. This could become a new alternative to standard textbooks in sleep medicine." --Reviewed by Eduardo A De Sousa, MD, FAAN (University of Oklahoma College of Medicine) Doody's Score: 93, 4 Stars!

ISBN: 9780323462167

Page Count: 848

Illustrations : 400 illustrations

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Sleep medicine practitioners (residents, fellows, clinicians); in particular, those preparing for boards