Making Sense of Sleep Medicine

This is a practical and patient-complaint focused handbook, directed to motivate non-sleep experts and beginners in sleep medicine and technology. This book provides a basic review of the area of sleep, identifies some common patient presentations and illustrates the types of investigations that should be requested. With sleep and breathing problems being so common and affecting many other chronic clinical conditions, it is important that primary care and other general physicians as well as allied health practitioners have a greater appreciation of this area. This text is a valuable “go-to” handbook for the occasional “sleep” practitioner to refer to.

Key Features:
• Contains specially packaged with Specific Learning Objectives to each chapter followed by self-assessment questions, case scenarios, basic sleep monitoring techniques in detail with sample reports.
• Provides direction to health care professionals who encounter patients with sleep and breathing disorders in their practice.
• Uses algorithms and concept maps for dealing with specific symptoms.

Dr Karuna Datta, MD, PhD, FAIMER (GSMC-2009), International Sleep Medicine Certification (World Sleep Federation-2012) is Professor in the Department of Sports Medicine at Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, Maharashtra, India. She presently is a principal investigator of Govt of India funded project in ‘yoga nidra and cognition’ and continues her tryst with yoga nidra.

Dr Deepak Shrivastava, MD, FAASM, FCCP, FACP, RPSGT is Professor of Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care at UC Davis School of Medicine and a faculty at UC Davis affiliated SJGH, a major trauma center. He is a senior faculty at Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program at UC Davis. He is an Adjunct Professor of Pharmacy at University of Pacific, School of Pharmacy and Assistant Professor of Medicine at St. George’s School of Medicine. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at School of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, California. He is an Associate Medical Director for a California Managed Care Organization.