"This clinical book on Sleep Medicine serves as a readable but comprehensive guide for healthcare professionals, whether they are a Sleep Medicine clinician reminding themselves of detailed aspects of a rare complex sleep disorder or a novice provider who is looking to upgrade their Sleep Medicine knowledge base. The text explores the physiology of sleep and circadian rhythms, discusses the clinical sleep assessment with appropriate sleep testing, and reviews common sleep disorders such as insomnia, obstructive sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, and circadian rhythm disorders. Other highlights from the text include chapters on sleep in special populations and in specific medical disorders as well as a section on the history and future of Sleep Medicine. This book aims to educate practitioners with the knowledge and skills needed to improve patient outcomes and promote overall health through better sleep"-- Provided by publisher.
Sleep Medicine examines the developments in this field of medicine over twenty five years after the seminal first edition written by Dr. Michael Aldrich. This second edition of Sleep Medicine offers detailed guidance for practicing clinicians of all levels of expertise.
Publishing over twenty five years after the seminal first edition written by Dr. Michael Aldrich, this second edition of Sleep Medicine examines the developments in this field of medicine over this time, while also offering detailed guidance for practicing clinicians of all levels of expertise. Sleep Medicine features contributions from academics and leading medical practitioners in the field.
The opening section includes a review of the basic science of sleep, prominent sleep disorders, and the assessment and treatment of those disorders. After this, the book examines sleep in specific populations, such as sleep in underserved populations, and occupational sleep medicine. Finally, there is an examination of the history of the field of sleep medicine and predicts future aspects of clinical sleep practice.
I. Normal Sleep Ch 1: What is Sleep? Ch 2: Sleep Patterns over the
Lifespan (Child -> Older Adult) Ch 3: Chronobiology Ch 4: Neurobiology
II.Abnormal Sleep-related Breathing Ch 5: The Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Patient: Epidemiology, Symptoms and Signs, and Impact of the Disorder Ch 6:
Positive Pressure treatment of OSA (CPAP, BPAP) Ch 7: Oral Appliance Therapy
for OSA Ch 8: Surgical Treatments of OSA Ch 9: Medical treatments of OSA Ch
10: CSA / Hypoventilation III. Abnormal Sleep Patterns Ch 11: Sleep
Deprivation Ch 12:The Insomnia Patient: Epidemiology, Symptoms and Signs, and
Impact of the Disorder Ch 13: Pharmacological Treatments of Insomnia Ch 14:
Non-pharmacological treatments of Insomnia
Ch 15: Circadian Disturbance Ch 16: The Hypersomnias (Narcolepsy/IH/Other)
IV. Abnormal Sleep Behaviors Ch 17: Restless Leg Syndrome Ch 18: Periodic
Limb Movements of Sleep Ch 19: Parasomnias Ch 20: Parasomnias V. The Adult
Sleep Patient in the Clinic and Laboratory Ch 21: Approach in Sleep Medicine
Clinic Ch 22: Common Survey Tools/Questionnaires used in Clinical Settings Ch
23: Laboratory and Non-Laboratory Sleep Testing (Polysomnography / HSAT only)
Ch 24: Clinical Use of Actigraphy and Consumer Technology for Assessment of
Sleep (Future Testing?) VI. Sleep and Other Aspects of Medicine Ch 25: Sleep
and Common Neurology Conditions (Focus on Stroke and Sleep, and Epilepsy and
Sleep, Headaches and Sleep) Ch 26: Sleep and Emotion, Cognition, and Memory
(including Neurodegenerative Conditions) Ch 27: Sleep and Psychiatry; (incl
Sleep and Autism) Ch 28: Sleep and Cardio-Pulmonary Conditions Ch 29:
Pediatric Sleep Medicine Ch 30: Sleep and Occupational Health Ch 31: Sleep in
Underserved Populations VII. The Field of Sleep Medicine Ch 32: The History
of Sleep Medicine Ch 33: The Future of Sleep Medicine
Dr. Douglas Kirsch is the Medical Director of Atrium Health Sleep Medicine, where he maintains an active clinical sleep practice and oversees clinical sleep medicine for the health system. He is currently a Clinical Professor in the Department of Neurology at the Wake Forest School of Medicine and was previously on the faculty at the University of Michigan Medical School and Harvard Medical School. He was the 2018-19 President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and was the Program Chair for the SLEEP Meeting in 2012-14.
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