Review of Sleep Medicine E-Book

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.
- 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(TM) 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

Dr. Avidan is Professor of Neurology at UCLA where he serves as Director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center. He completed his Neurology Residency at the Georgetown University Medical Center, and Fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He served as Visiting Professor of Neurology Education in the Department of Neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, MN, and was selected to receive the 2014 American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Excellence in Education Award, for career contributions to education in sleep medicine. Dr. Avidan has published over 100 manuscripts on sleep disorders and had co-authored several books with Dr. Meir Kryger (a giant in the field). He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Sleep Medicine, and a Diplomate in the Specialty of Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

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 ScoringSection 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 NeuroscienceAppendicesStatistics in MedicineCardiac ArrhythmiasStatistics for Clinical Trials and AuditHorne-Östberg Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire