Fundamentals of Sleep Medicine

Fundamentals of Sleep Medicine


Written by Richard Berry, MD, Fundamentals of Sleep Medicine is a brand-new multimedia resource that provides a
concise, clinically focused alternative to larger sleep medicine references. Get everything you need to know about the
evaluation and management of sleep disorders, including the interpretation of sleep scans and the use of the newly
overhauled AASM scoring criteria. Coverage of physiology is limited to what is necessary for clinical decision making.
Reference is a snap due to the book's logical, user-friendly format and online features which include the full text and
illustrations, numerous video clips, selected case studies, and







1 Sleep Stages and Basic Sleep Monitoring
2 Technology of Sleep Monitoring
3 Scoring Sleep Stages and Arousals in Adults
4 Biocalibration, Artifacts, and Common Variants of Sleep
5 Scoring Sleep stages and Arousals in Children
6 Sleep Architecture Parameters and Normative Data
7 Monitoring Respiration - Technology and Techniques
8 Monitoring Respiration - Event Definitions and Examples
9 Cardiac Monitoring and Scoring Rules
10 Monitoring of Sleep Related Movements
11 Portable monitoring, Actigraphy, Sleep Diary, pH Monitoring
12 MSLT and MWT
13 Case Studies in use of the MSLT
14 Evaluation of the Sleepy Patient
15 Sleep and Respiratory physiology
16 Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults
17 PAP treatment of OSA
18 Non-PAP treatment of OSA
19 Central Sleep Apnea
20 Complex Sleep Apnea and Hypoventilation Syndromes
21 Sleep and Chronic Lung Disease
22 Neurobiology of Sleep
23 Hypersomnias of Central Origin
24 Sleep Related Movement Disorders
25 Evaluation of the Patient with Insomnia
26 Insomnias
27 Behavioral Sleep Disorders of Children
28 Circadian Rhythm Physiology
29 Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
30 Clinical EEG and video EEG
31 Parasomnias
32 Care Studies in Parasomnias
33 Sleep Related Epilepsy
34 Sleep and Psychiatric and Behavioral Disorders
35 Sleep and GI physiology and associated Disorders
36 Sleep and Endocrine physiology
37 Sleep and Medical Conditions
38 Sleep and Neurological Conditions
39 Glossary