Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine

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Saunders/Elsevier, 2011 - HEALTH & FITNESS - 1723 pages

Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, 5th Edition, by Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Thomas Roth, PhD, and William C. Dement, MD, PhD, delivers the comprehensive, dependable guidance you need to effectively diagnose and manage even the most challenging sleep disorders. Updates to genetics and circadian rhythms, occupational health, sleep in older people, memory and sleep, physical examination of the patient, comorbid insomnias, and much more keep you current on the newest areas of the field. A greater emphasis on evidence-based approaches helps you make the most well-informed clinical decisions. And, a new more user-friendly, full color format - both in print and online, lets you find the answers you need more quickly and easily. Whether you are preparing for the new sleep medicine fellowship examination, or simply want to offer your patients today's best care, this is the once resource to use!




  • Make optimal use of the newest scientific discoveries and clinical approaches that are advancing the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders.


  • Stay on top of the hottest topics in sleep medicine with 56 new chapters, including:

    • Postpartum Sleep Disturbances

    • Fatigue Risk Management

    • What does Brain Imaging Reveal about Sleep Genesis and Maintenance?

    • Physician Examination of the Sleep Patient

    • Forensic Sleep Medicine

    • Pathophysiology and Models of Insomnia

    • Treatment of Insomnia: Developing Treatment Guidelines

    • Restrictive Lung Disorders

    • Sleep Medicine in the Elderly: Obstructive

    • Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Metabolic, and Renal Disorders

    • Sleep Apnea, Obesity and Bariatric Surgery

    • Sleep and Renal Disease

    • Theories of Dreaming

    • Why We Dream

    • Sleep, Stress, and Burnout

    • Evaluating Sleep EEG and Sleep Stage Scoring

    • And more
  • Master the newest areas in the field with 5 new sections covering:

    • Sleep Mechanisms and Phylogeny

    • Genetics of Sleep

    • Physiology in Sleep

    • Occupational Sleep Medicine

    • Sleep Medicine in the Elderly

  • Access the complete contents online, fully searchable, and follow links to abstracts for most bibliographical references.

  • Apply evidence-based approaches wherever available.

  • Find answers more easily thanks to a new user-friendly, full-color format.



The essential reference tool to manage and diagnose patients with sleep disorders.

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About the author (2011)

Meir H. Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Professor of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Director of Research and Education, Gaylord Hospital Sleep Medicine, Wallingford, Connecticut

Thomas Roth, PhD, Head, Division of Sleep Disorders Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital; Clinical Profesor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Detroit, MI

William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D., is the world's leading authority on sleep, sleep deprivation, and the diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders. In 1970 he founded the world's first sleep disorders center at Stanford University. In 1975 he launched the American Sleep Disorders Association and served as president for its first twelve years. Each year since 1971 he has taught the popular "Sleep and Dreams" course at Stanford University and has written the first undergraduate textbook in the field. He was also chairman of the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, whose final report led directly to the creation of a new agency within the National Institutes of Health, the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research. He lives with his family in northern California.

Christopher Vaughan is the author of How Life Begins: The Science of Life in the Womb, named as one of the best books of 1996 by the National Association of Libraries. He lives in Palo Alto, California, with his wife and two children.

Bibliographic information

TitlePrinciples and Practice of Sleep Medicine
ClinicalKey 2012
Expert consult
Saunders W.B
AuthorsMeir H. Kryger, Tom Roth, William C. Dement
EditorsMeir H. Kryger, Tom Roth, William C. Dement
Edition5, illustrated
PublisherSaunders/Elsevier, 2011
ISBN1416066454, 9781416066453
Length1723 pages
Subjects › 

HEALTH & FITNESS / Sleep & Sleep Disorders
Medical / Neurology
Medical / Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine
  
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