Principles and Practice of Pediatric Sleep Medicine - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0721694586 ISBN 13: 9780721694580

Publisher: Saunders, 2005

Synopsis

This companion to Kryger et al.'s PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SLEEP MEDICINE focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of a full range of sleep disorders in children. Recognized leaders in the field offer definitive guidance on virtually all of the sleep-associated problems encountered in pediatrics, from sleep and colic...to obstructive sleep apnea, neurological disorders, and hypersomnias...to sleep-related enuresis.

• Presents up-to-date information of the field's hottest topics in chapters on Pharmacology of Sleep in Children · Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders During Childhood · Circadian Rhythm Disorders: Diagnosis and Treatment · and Differential Diagnosis of Pediatric Sleep Disorders.
• Organizes information into separate sections covering normal and abnormal sleep, for quick reference.
• Makes further investigation easy with abundantly referenced chapters.
• Addresses both medical and psychiatric sleep disorders.
• Features the expertise of Drs. Sheldon, Kryger and Ferber - renowned authorities in the field of sleep medicine.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen H. Sheldon, DO, Assoc. Director, Sleep Disorders Center, Univ. of Chicago Hospitals, Clinical Assoc., Dept. of Pediatrics, Wyler Children's Hospital, Chicago, IL; Meir H. Kryger, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Manitoba; Director, Sleep Laboratory, St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Richard Ferber, MD; and Ronald E. Dahl, MD, Staunton Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburg School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

Review:

"The 28 chapters of this book compile the expertise of the leading pediatric sleep researchers and clinicians in the field of sleep medicine...It also covers in detail those sleep-related disturbances that are most prevalent in the pediatric population, including respiratory disorders, problems of circadian timing, parasomnias and movement disorders." - By Margaret Papadakis, BS, RPSGT

About this edition

• Publisher: Saunders
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0721694586
• ISBN 13: 9780721694580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Stephen H. Sheldon, Richard Ferber, Meir H. Kryger