Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine

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Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Medical, Specialties, Pulmonary & Thoracic, Psychiatry

• Author: Meir H. Kryger
• ISBN: 9781455745494
• Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences
• Publication: September 29, 2009
• Imprint: Saunders
• Language: English

Accurately diagnose and treat adult and pediatric sleep disorders with exceptional visual guidance from world-renowned sleep expert Dr. Meir H. Kryger. Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine is an easy-to-read, highly illustrated atlas that details the physiologic, clinical, morphologic, and investigational aspects of the full range of sleep disorders you encounter in everyday practice -- and helps you interpret the visual manifestations of your patients’ sleep disorders so you can manage them most effectively.

• Consult this title on your favorite e-reader, conduct rapid searches, and adjust font sizes for optimal readability. Compatible with Kindle®, nook®, and other popular devices.

• Visually grasp how sleep affects each body system thanks to a full-color compendium that correlates the physiology of sleep with the relevant findings.

• Determine the best and most up-to-date drug therapy with information about the latest drugs available as well as those in clinical trials.

• Compare your patients’ polysomnograms to a wealth of high-quality recordings taken from the latest machines used by institutions around the world.

• Score, interpret, and diagnose sleep disorders employing the scoring rules from the latest AASM scoring manual.

• Stay current with the latest on sleep and psychiatric disease, circadian desynchrony, dreaming, insomnia, home sleep testing, new sleep apnea treatments, and more.

• Understand the correlation between sleep and other health issues - such as stroke and heart failure.

• Find diagnostic and treatment information quickly and easily thanks to a highly illustrated, easy-to-read format that highlights key details.

• Access the fully searchable text as well as all of the book’s illustrations, more than 20 patient interview videos, over 40 sleep lab videos, and 200-plus polysomnogram fragments at Expert Consult.