Sleepy or Sleepless Clinical Approach to the Sleep Patient
This concise text takes a symptom-based approach to evaluate and treat sleep disorders. Divided into two sections, this book emphasizes practical information in the patient history and physical, the latest screening techniques and common sleep disor
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Sleepy or Sleepless
Raman K. Malhotra Editor
Sleepy or Sleepless Clinical Approach to the Sleep Patient
Editor Raman K. Malhotra, MD Director, Neurology Residency Program Co-Director, SLUCare Sleep Disorders Center Director, Sleep Medicine Fellowship Assistant Professor of Neurology Saint Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-18053-3 ISBN 978-3-319-18054-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-18054-0
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Foreword
Dr. Raman K. Malhotra, an authority in sleep medicine education, has assembled a group of exemplary authors who superbly summarize the major sleep disturbances in an effective, accurate, and efficient manner. This book consists of practical and probabilistic approaches to any patient who may present with a sleep complaint. It is with this foresight that Dr. Malhotra, as book editor, embarks on his uniquely imaginative symptoms-based perspective of sleep medicine. Given that the majority of patients who arrive in a sleep disorders clinic often complain of excessive sleepiness and insomnia, the title of the book is very appropriate indeed. It is with this in mind that this book is strategically divided into two sections: Part I focuses on “The Sleepy Patient” and is subdivided into seven chapters addressing history and physical findings, diagnostic tools and tests, and then proceeds with a discussion of the two key clinical entities: sleep disordered breathing and central nervous system hypersomnias, which most commonly present with excessive sleepiness. The chapter on sleepiness in industry is indispensable given the important contributions of shift work schedule requirements on human sleep. Part I
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