Clinician's Guide to Sleep Disorders details methods to obtain a sleep history, analyze physical exam findings, order blood work and testing, and apply the latest treatment modalities and follow-up regimens.

Features:

• Provides practical information including diagnostic criteria and treatment recommendations from heralded clinicians in the field
• Describes and analyzes every available sleep diagnostic test including nocturnal polysomnography, multiple sleep latency testing, maintenance of wakefulness testing, actigraphy, and more
• Thoroughly explores all aspects of sleep-disordered breathing including clinical features, epidemiology, genetics, pathophysiology, and diagnosis
• Presents an extensive differential diagnosis for nocturnal events
• Offers the reader tables comprised of diagnostic algorithms, treatment approaches, and key information necessary to diagnose the full breadth of sleep disorders
• Covers sleep in special populations such as children, women, the elderly, and those with psychiatric illness...and spans disorders such as insomnia, restless legs syndrome, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, and irregular sleep-wake patterns

Contents

1. Approach to the Patient with a Sleep Complaint
2. Diagnostic Procedures in Sleep Medicine
3. Insomnia: Difficulty Falling and Staying Asleep
4. Restless Leg Syndrome and Periodic Limb Movement Disorder: Nightwalkers
5. Sleep Apnea: Snoring, Snorting and Trouble Breathing at Night
6. Treating Sleep Apnea: CPAP, Surgery, or Dental Appliances
7. Narcolepsy and Disorders of Excessive Sleepiness
8. Parasomnias: Strange Night-Time Events
9. Circadian Rhythms: Problems with the Body Clock
10. Sleep Problems in Children
11. Special Topics in Sleep
12. The Future of Sleep Medicine

Index

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