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18th Annual Course in Pediatric Sleep Medicine
March 28 - 31, 2012
CME credit: 32 hours • Tuition: $3,200
Target Audience: Clinicians, technologists, and other health professionals with interest in the management of infant, pediatric and adolescent sleep disorders.
This course is designed to focus on the developmental aspects of normal infant sleep and sleep disorders in infants, children, and adolescents. Methodological considerations for the laboratory evaluation and diagnostic and treatment issues for this patient population are reviewed.
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Objectives: At the conclusion of the course the participant should be able to discuss or identify:
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- normal developmental aspects of sleep in infants, children, and adolescents
- the most frequently encountered sleep disorders in infants, children and adolescents
- evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders in infants, children and adolescents
- recent studies describing the interface between sleep disorders and emotional and behavioral disorders
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Lecture Topics:
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- Normal development of sleep in infants and children
- Parasomnias: sleep walking, night terrors, headbanging
- Intro to pathophysiology sleep apnea
- Sleep apnea in children
- Developmental issues
- Enuresis and disorders of arousal
- Multiple sleep latency test (MSLT)
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- Sleeplessness
- Interface between sleep disorders and behavioral/emotional disturbances
- Polysomnography: review of methodology and technology with consideration for this age group
- CPAP treatment for infants and children with sleep related breathing problems
- "new rules"
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Workshop Topics:
- Review of equipment
- Review of polysomnograms (infants and children; normal findings; abnormal findings, artifacts)
- Sleep stage scoring and "new rules"
- CPAP
- Case presentations
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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.
The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and designates this activity for a maximum of 32 credit hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the education activity.
Disclosure: It is the intent of The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ to assure that its CME activities should not be influenced by the special interests of individuals associated with its programs. Having an interest in or affiliation with any corporate organization does not necessarily influence a speaker's presentation, but the relationship must be made known in advance to the audience in accordance with the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Faculty disclosure statements are provided in the handout material. The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ has not received commercial support for these activities.
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Clinical Polysomnography and Sleep Medicine
2012 date to be announced *
CME credit: 32 hours • Tuition: $3,200
* Please send email to SSM if you are interested in getting on a list to be notified with updates.
Target Audience: Physicians and other health care professionals interested in the management of sleep disorders, including technical aspects of polysomnography and interpretation of studies.
This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive review of the basics of sleep medicine in a highly structured lecture format complemented by informal hands-on workshops. Clinicians will augment their scoring, report formulation, and sleep laboratory quality control capabilities through intensive review sessions.
Sleep medicine requires a high degree of interaction between the technical and medical components of the sleep disorders diagnosis and treatment teams. Feedback from participants indicates that clinicians and technologists enrolled in the same course has many benefits.
Objectives: At the conclusion of the course the participant should be able to discuss or identify:
- the clinical aspects of normal human sleep
- the preparation of patient and equipment for sleep monitoring
- sleep stage scoring and abnormal events recorded on the polysomnogram
- the symptomatology of sleep disorders and differential diagnoses
- treatment plans for patients with sleep disorders
Lecture Topics:
- Normal human sleep
- Circadian rhythms
- Overview of childhood sleep disorders
- Insomnia
- Narcolepsy
- Sleep related breathing disorders
- Recent advances in sleep related breathing disorders
- Surgical management of the sleep apnea patient
- Sleep disorders and public health and safety
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- Sleep and aging
- Positive airway pressure treatment of sleep related breathing disorders
- Parasomnias
- Polysomnography: the sleep laboratory evaluation
- Polysomnography: amplifiers and filters
- Measurement of excessive daytime sleepiness: MSLT & MWT
- Review of normal human sleep stage scoring and discussion of "new rules"
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Workshop Topics:
- Sleep stage scoring
- Review of polysomnograms
- Continuous and bi-level pressure treatment of sleep related breathing disorders
- Case reviews
- Infants
- Abnormal records/artifact recognition
- MSLT/MWT
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This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.
The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and designates this activity for a maximum of 32 credit hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the education activity.
Disclosure: It is the intent of The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ to assure that its CME activities should not be influenced by the special interests of individuals associated with its programs. Having an interest in or affiliation with any corporate organization does not necessarily influence a speaker's presentation, but the relationship must be made known in advance to the audience in accordance with the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Faculty disclosure statements are provided in the handout material. The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ has not received commercial support for these activities.
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