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Sleep Medicine Pearls, Second Edition

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This is an excellent book, I agree with the October 2000 review.
It is another book in the "pearls series". Almost 400 pages, divided in 22 Fundamentals of sleep medicine (112 cases), and appendix.
The first few fundamentals (25 cases) deal with sleep staging, monitoring, architecture, and MSLT. Cases 26 till 78 are devoted to Obstructive sleep apnea, Respiratory arousals and CPAP, etc, and central apneas. There several cases for PLMS, Parasomnia, Narcolepsy, seizure, insomnia (case 79 till 103). The last nine cases (104-112) deal with circadian sleep.
Each case starts with few lines of history and exam (neck, pharynx) tracing, and question. The next one page (often 2-3 pages) explains in great, concise, easily memorizable way a specific topic in sleep medicine. They are reach with graphics, tracings. The case ends with few-several pearls summarizing the discussion.
I keep learning from this excellent book. I think that every health care provider who likes to learn about sleep medicine will find it as an excellent introduction and good simple resource.

I am gearing this review towards passing the Sleep Medicine Boards, (see my other review about Bowman's Book). This book, by itself, will not be sufficient to pass the sleep boards, as it does not contain enough background information about neuroanatomy, neurotransmitters, hormones, etc. However, if you are looking for a book to help you practice as a sleep medicine physician, then this book is excellent. It is well-written, well-organized, and extremely practical. Each section starts with background information, then gives a clinical case that stresses a specific point. It will help you practice your scoring, diagnosing artifacts, going through sleep logs, etc. I found this book extremely useful for the clinical questions on the sleep boards, and it is very easy to read. If Mr. Berry expanded his book and included more chapters on neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and pediatric sleep medicine, then this book would probably be better than Bowman's, simply because it is better written and better organized.

This is one of the Pearl series in medicine. Dr. Berry uses one hundred and three clinical vignettes to illustrate one point of sleep medicine for each case. The line drawings and charts are succint and useful. In bite size doses (each can be studied in ten minutes or less) he makes it clear and rememberable. It is a nice book to carry with you or read by the bed or in the bathroom as you have time. The general physician can get a handle on the detailed field and also find "pearls" to help him in everyday practice with patients who have sleep problems.

I used this as a supplement to my board review course and notebook. I also used the Butkow (sp?) PSG atlas from 1996-ish. This book was a great resource and covered a lot of material that I did subsequently find on the ABIM Sleep Medicine Exam. I don't know if I passed, yet, but, if I do, I'll attribute a big part of it to this book.
Addendum Dec 2008: I passed the ABIM Sleep Boards. This book helped lots.

For a beginner in sleep this is very helpful.Some redundancy, but facilitates learning through repetition.

This an excellent book for whom ever wants to know about sleep medicine. Covers most of the toppics, not much about children sleep problem. Is best book to start with for sleep medicine as rotation, fellowship or general knowledge. Is very easy to read, may be in 5-7 days you can read the book once. By reading this book when you see patients with sleep problem you can dx, ddx and tx them. By knowing this book you can interpret sleep studies with very minor difficulty and after a short while you feel very confidenct. I should specially thank the writer of this book for an excellent well done job. I very highly recommend this book, If you need one book to know about sleep medicine that would be ONLY THIS BOOK without second thought.

it is hard to find one first resource for sleep medicine basics. this book would do it for you. i'm a third year pulmonary fellow, planning to apply for the sleep boards. everybody will tell you that you won't pass the boards by studying only this book but they'll tell you that this is a great start.

I really like how each chapter is a case study. I find it easier to remember something if I have something to relate it to. This book does just that.

I find this book full of practical information about sleep medicine. The information is delivered in the form of clinical cases. The information ranges from interpreting polysomnograms to management of patients.
This is a very useful book for the clinician taking care of patients with sleep disorders as well as those interpreting sleep studies.

I would certainly buy from this seller again... the book came in a timely fashion and in excellent condition. The price was very reasonable.