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SSM
COURSE INFORMATION
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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 ableto 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
- Impact of sleep on 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
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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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14th
Annual Course in Pediatric Sleep Medicine
March 17-21, 2008
CME credit: ~35 hr • Tuition: $3,000
Target Audience: Clinicians, technologists, and other health professionals with an interest in the management of infant and pediatric 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.
Objectives:
At the conclusion of the course the participant should be able to discuss or identify:
- 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 ADHD
Lecture
Topics:
- Normal development of sleep in infants and children
- Parasomnias: sleep walking, night terrors, headbanging, intro to pathophysiology sleep apnea syndrome human sleep
- 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
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Workshop
Topics:
- Review of equipment
- Review of polysomnograms (infants and children; normal findings; abnormal findings, artifacts)
- Sleep stage scoring
- CPAP
- Case presentations
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Target Audience: Clinicians preparing to specialize in sleep medicine.This course is designed for those needing an intensive review and consolidation of the basic science of sleep, standards of clinical practice, diagnostic procedures, polysomnogram reading and interpretation.
Objectives: At the conclusion of the course the participant should be able to discuss or identify:
- basic mechanisms of sleep including the neuroanatomical and neuropharmacological aspects
- basic mechanisms of circadian rhythms
- symptomatology and differential diagnoses of the major sleep disorders
- the sleep laboratory evaluation process
- sleep vs. wake EEG data and recognition of sleep stages and arousals
- abnormal polysomnographic findings and artifact identification
Please note: We cannot guarantee any specific level of performance on the exam. Please check our references and suggested reading list in SSM's Sleep Medicine Bookstore prior to the course.
Lecture Topics:
- Impact of sleep on public health and safety
- Normal human sleep
- Sleep and aging
- Infant sleep: developmental aspects and pathology
- Neurotransmitters and somnopharmacology
- Human sleep/wake circadian rhythm
- Polysomnography: the sleep laboratory evaluation
- Polysomnography: amplifiers and filters
- Sleep stage scoring
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- Narcolepsy/hypersomnias
- Parasomnias
- Insomnia: diagnosis, pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment
- Control of breathing during sleep
- Sleep related breathing disordrs
- Recent advances in sleep related breathing disorders
- Surgical management of the sleep apnea patient
- Measurement of excessive daytime sleepiness (MSLT and MWT)
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Workshop Topics:
- Intensive review of polysomnographic data (normal human sleep, abnormal findings, artifact recognition)
SSM Intensive: PSG Scoring and Report Formulation
July 17-19, 2008
October 16-18 , 2008
CME credit: ~20 hrs • Tuition: $1,850
Course Description: Intensive review and practice of all aspects of scoring sleep studies.
Target Audience: Physicians, technologists and other healthcare professionals involved in diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, who need to acquire or improve skills of data analysis and interpretation.
Objectives: At the conclusion of this intensive, participants will have initiated pattern recognition skills necessary to identify normal sleep & sleep disorders in infants, children and adults. This includes:
• sleep stage scoring
• arousal scoring
• artifact recognition
• scoring of respiratory events
• movement events (including periodic limb movements [PLMs])
• EKG, (ECG) arrhythmias
Participants will also be able to discuss data from tools used (other than PSG) in sleep medicine and sleep research.
Participants will be able to formulate a report of the sleep study results.
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