From the Back Cover
REVIEW OF SLEEP MEDICINE, 4TH EDITION ALON Y. AVIDAN, MD, MPH Comprehensive review content and practice tests--online and in print!Successfully review sleep medicine, whether you plan to improve your sleep medicine competencyskills or prepare for sleep medicine specialty examinations with this expanded review-and-testworkbook that includes more than 1,400 interactive questions and answers online. Now in full color throughout, Review of Sleep Medicine, fourth edition, features a new, highyieldformat that uses figures, polysomnography tracings, EEG illustrations, sleep actigraphyand sleep diaries, tables, algorithms, and key points designed to explain challenging topics andhelp you make the most of your study time. The text is fully searchable online and featureshundreds of interactive questions and answers in study and timed-practice modes, making thisthe ideal resource for sleep medicine competency assessment. * Provides a highly effective review with a newly condensed outline format thatincludes full-color tables, figures, diagrams, and charts meant to facilitate the quickrecall of information.* Includes new and emerging data on the function of sleep and the theories for why wesleep, on quality assessment in sleep medicine, and on the benefits and risks of sleep-inducingmedications. * Contains new chapters on sleep stage scoring, sleep phylogenic evolution and ontogeny,geriatric sleep disorders, and quality measures in sleep medicine.* Features an expanded online question bank with 1,400 questions and answers thatmimic the Sleep Medicine Specialty Examinations in style and format. * Presents concise summaries of all aspects of sleep medicine clinical summaries, includingepidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnostic techniques, treatment strategies,and prognostic implications. * Provides a library of assessment questions with comprehensive explanations to helpyou identify the reasoning behind each answer and think logically about the problems. * Offers the expertise of a multidisciplinary, global team of experts includingsleep researchers, multispecialty sleep clinicians, and educators. The unique strengthof this educational resource is its inclusion of all sleep subspecialties, such as neurology,pulmonary medicine, psychiatry, internal medicine, clinical psychology, and registeredpolysomnographic technology. * Perfect for sleep medicine practitioners, sleep medicine fellows and trainees, allied healthprofessionals, nurse practitioners, sleep technologists, and other healthcare providers to useas a review tool, quick reference manual, and day-to-day resource on key topicsin sleep medicine. * Expert Consult™ eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBookexperience allows you to search all of the text, figures, and references from the book on avariety of devices.
About the Author
Alon Y. Avidan, MD, MPH
Dr. Avidan is Professor of Neurology & Vice Chair, UCLA Department of Neurology, where he also serves as Director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center. He completed his Neurology Residency at the Georgetown University Medical Center, and Fellowship in Sleep Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. He was recently the 2014 American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Excellence in Education Award, for career contributions to education in sleep medicine.
He has published over 100 manuscripts on sleep disorders and had coauthored four books: "Handbook of Sleep Medicine," "Geriatric Sleep Medicine," "Review of Sleep Medicine" and Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine." He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Sleep Medicine and a Diplomate in the Specialty of Sleep Medicine by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.
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