Overview
- Offers a clear approach to the different sleep disorders, with a major focus on respiratory disorders of sleep
- Provides a concise, evidence-based review of sleep medicine for the pulmonologist and other health professionals
- Includes differential diagnosis strategies for common sleep complaints and an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and management
- Includes a review of the current standards of practice, emerging technology and unresolved issues awaiting further research
- Developed by an international group of renowned authors
Part of the book series: Respiratory Medicine (RM)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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About this book
Sleep disorders represent a major portion of the chief complaints seen by pulmonologists and other physicians. Sleep apnea and hypopnea syndrome for example, are common disorders with significant adverse health consequences. Sleep apnea is associated with increased cardiovascular mortality, impaired quality of life and increased motor vehicle accidents. In addition, sleep apnea often co-exists with other chronic conditions including obesity, the metabolic syndrome, and tobacco use disorder. Patients with sleep-related conditions often present with non-specific complaints that require a broad and detailed knowledge of the wide range of sleep disorders.
In Essentials of Sleep Medicine: An Approach for Clinical Pulmonology, a concise, evidence-based review of sleep medicine for the pulmonologist is presented. Providing a focused, scientific basis for the effects of sleep on human physiology, especially cardiac and respiratory physiology, chapters also outline a differential diagnosis for common sleep complaints and an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and management. This includes a review of the current standards of practice and of emerging technology and unresolved issues awaiting further research. Each chapter includes a summary of current research and outlines future research directions and issues. In all, Essentials of Sleep Medicine: An Approach for Clinical Pulmonology provides a clear diagnostic and management program for all the different sleep disorders, with a major focus on respiratory disorders of sleep, and includes key points and summaries. Developed by an international group of renowned authors, Essentials of Sleep Medicine: An Approach for Clinical Pulmonology is an invaluable resource for pulmonologists, respiratory care practitioners, polysomnographictechnologists, graduate students, clinical researchers, and other health professionals seeking an in-depth review of sleep medicine.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“In Essentials of Sleep Medicine, M. Safwan Badr and colleagues aim to offer readers ‘relevant facts helping the busy practicing physicians to provide better care for sleep disorders’. … provide a very didactic and informative review on normal sleep and the pharmacology of sleep, both of which are addressed in a comprehensive way for respiratory physicians. … The book is mainly devoted to respiratory sleep medicine but also covers, in a very practical approach, the areas of sleep diseases in neurology, psychiatry, psychology and chronobiology.” (J-L. Pepin, European Respiratory Review, Vol. 22 (128), June, 2013)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Essentials of Sleep Medicine
Book Subtitle: An Approach for Clinical Pulmonology
Editors: M. Safwan Badr
Series Title: Respiratory Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-735-8
Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-62703-880-5Published: 25 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60761-735-8Published: 06 November 2011
Series ISSN: 2197-7372
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7380
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 416
Topics: Pneumology/Respiratory System, Internal Medicine, Primary Care Medicine