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• Title:Clinician's guide to sleep medicine / Neil J. Douglas.
  
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• Variant Title:Sleep medicine
  
• Author/Creator:Douglas, Neil J.
  
• Published/Created:London : Arnold, 2002.
  

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  • Call Number: WM188 .D683 2002
    
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  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WM188 .D683 2002
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Sleep disorders.
  Sleep disorders--Treatment.
  Sleep--Physiological aspects.
  
• Description:xi, 251 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  
• Series:Clinicians' guides.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0340742054
  
• Contents:1. Introduction to sleep
  importance of sleep
  Why we sleep
  How much sleep do we need?
  What causes sleep?
  Sleep stages
  Clinical features of sleep
  Effects of sleep on human physiology
  Sleep and the clinician
  2. Obstructive sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome
  History
  Definition of OSAHS
  Epidemiology
  Mechanism of upper airway narrowing
  Arousal response
  Distribution of apnoeas and hypopnoeas during the night
  Genetics
  Complications and associations of OSAHS
  Clinical features
  Diagnosing OSAHS
  Investigating patients with possible OSAHS
  Treatment
  Cost/benefit analysis
  3. Narcolepsy
  History
  Aetiology
  Epidemiology
  Clinical features
  Course and prognosis
  Investigation
  Treatment
  Driving regulations
  4. Other causes of sleepiness
  Prolonged sleepiness
  Recurrent sleepiness
  5. Investigating the sleepy patient
  History
  Examination
  Need for further investigation
  Investigations
  Protocol for investigating sleepy patients
  6. Insomnia
  Definition
  Aetiology and classification
  Epidemiology
  Clinical features
  Assessment of patients with insomnia
  Treatment of insomnia
  7. Circadian rhythm disorders
  Introduction to circadian rhythms
  Shift work
  Jet lag
  Phase alteration syndromes
  Treatment of phase alteration syndrome
  8. Miscellaneous sleep disorders
  Night terrors
  Sleepwalking
  REM sleep behavioural disorders
  PLMD treatment
  Restless legs syndrome
  Snoring
  Central sleep apnoea
  Bruxism
  Enuresis
  9. Breathing during sleep in patients with COPD
  Aetiology
  Consequences of sleep hypoxaemia in COPD
  Role of studies of breathing and oxygenation during sleep
  Treatment of nocturnal hypoxaemia
  10. Nocturnal asthma
  Epidemiology
  Mechanism and timing of nocturnal airway narrowing
  Effector mechanisms producing nocturnal airway narrowing
  Clinical consequences
  Diagnosis
  Treatment
  11. Sleep and medical conditions
  Cardiovascular disease
  Cerebrovascular disease
  Neuromuscular disease
  Epilepsy
  Obesity hypoventilation syndrome
  Gastrointestinal disorders
  Endocrine disorders
  Renal disease
  Pregnancy.