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Clinician's Guide to Sleep Disorders

Item Number
152
Estimated Value
200 USD
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Item Description

Authors: Nathaniel F Watson, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Bradley V Vaughn, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill

Supplying symptom-based chapters and more than 140 tables and figures, this guide:

  • 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
A reader friendly and quick reference guide for the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders, this resource covers the entire range of sleep medicine addressing only the most clinically relevant information for sleep disorders management. Each chapter presents a thoughtful course of action for diagnosis and treatment - detailing 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.

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