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Kryger's Sleep Medicine Review

A Problem-Oriented Approach

  • 3rd Edition - February 20, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Meir H. Kryger, Russell Rosenberg, Douglas Kirsch
  • Language: English

Part of the trusted Kryger line of sleep medicine references, Kryger’s Sleep Medicine Review, 3rd Edition, tests your knowledge with over 1,000 questions and answers, both in p… Read more

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Part of the trusted Kryger line of sleep medicine references, Kryger’s Sleep Medicine Review, 3rd Edition, tests your knowledge with over 1,000 questions and answers, both in print and online. This unique review tool follows the updated AASM exam blueprint, providing authoritative guidance and current information on every aspect of sleep medicine. It’s an invaluable resource for test prep and clinical practice, with updates to the classification system (ICSD3) and scoring manual, a new section on instrumentation, and questions related to key topics such as home sleep testing.

Key features

  • Tests your knowledge with 540 in-book questions, and 520 additional questions online in a testing module that indicates which questions are answered correctly or incorrectly. All questions correspond to the blueprint of the newly updated AASM exam
  • Includes a new section on instrumentation and testing that covers electrical components and technical aspects of sleep devices as well as guidance on sleep study preparation and testing conditions
  • Features increased content on pediatrics and management of children transitioning into adulthood, with many new pediatric-specific cases and questions
  • Keys answers to the relevant sections of Dr. Kryger's Principles and Practices of Sleep Medicine as well as the Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine
  • Brings you up to date with recent changes in the exam through coverage of techniques for applying the new scoring rules, information on the latest classification definitions (ICSD-3), tips for passing the exam, and more
  • Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices

Readership

Sleep Specialists preparing for AASM certification, pulmonologists, neurologists, psychiatrists

Table of contents

1. Normal Sleep and Variants (Kirsch)
Sleep-wake mechanisms, neurophysiology 
Other physiology 
Normal sleep 
Effects of sleep deprivation 
Scoring and staging 

2. Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders  (Rosenberg)
Circadian sleep disorders 
Shift work disorder 
Jet lag disorder 
Circadian sleep-wake disorder not otherwise specified 

3. Insomnia  (Rosenberg)
Short-term insomnia 
Chronic insomnias 
Chronic insomnia of childhood (3.5 percent)
Insomnia related to behavior, medical conditions, or drugs 

4. Central Disorders of Hypersomnia  (Rosenberg)
Narcolepsy 
Idiopathic hypersomnia 
Kleine-Levin syndrome (periodic hypersomnia) 
Insufficient sleep syndrome 
Hypersomnia due to medical disorders 
Hypersomnia due to medications 
Hypersomnia associated with psychiatric disorders 

5. Parasomnias  (Kryger)
NREM-related parasomnias 
REM-related parasomnias 
Other parasomnias 
Isolated symptoms and normal variants 

6. Sleep-Related Movements  (Kirsch)
Restless legs syndrome 
Periodic limb movement during sleep 
Rhythmic movement disorder 
Sleep-related leg cramps 
Bruxism 
Sleep myoclonus 
Other-sleep-related movement disorders 

7. Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders  (Kryger)
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Central Sleep Apnea Syndromes
Sleep-related hypoventilation disorders
Sleep-related hypoxemia disorder
Isolated symptoms and normal variants

8. Sleep in Other Disorders (Kryger)
Neurologic disorder
Psychiatric disorders 
Other medical disorders  

9. Instrumentation and Testing (Kirsch)
Electrical components
Technical aspects of sleep devices
Electrical safety 
Artifacts 
Study preparation and testing conditions 

10. Gone but Not Forgotten (Kryger)
Safe Sleep
Behavioral Insomnia of Childhood
Primary Sleep Apnea Syndrome in the Newborn
Congenital central Hypoventilation Syndrome
Obstructive sleep apnea in Children

Product details

  • Edition: 3
  • Latest edition
  • Published: May 10, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

MK

Meir H. Kryger

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

RR

Russell Rosenberg

Affiliations and expertise
CEO, The Atlanta School of Sleep Medicine & Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

DK

Douglas Kirsch

Affiliations and expertise
Medical Director, Carolinas Sleep Medicine, Carolinas HealthCare System, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA