Book contents
- Common Pitfalls in Sleep Medicine
- Common Pitfalls in Sleep Medicine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the complexity, challenges, and rewards of effective sleep medicine
- Section one Sleepiness versus fatigue, tiredness, and lack of energy
- Section two Assessment of daytime sleepiness
- 7 Patient complaints, subjective questionnaires, and objective measures of sleepiness may not coincide
- 8 Daytime sleepiness and obstructive sleep apnea severity: where symptoms and metrics do not converge
- 9 Neither subjective nor objective measures allow confident prediction of future risk for motor vehicle crashes due to sleepiness
- 10 A sleep apnea patient with excessive daytime sleepiness and subtle respiratory events may be misdiagnosed with narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia
- Section three Diagnosis of narcolepsy
- Section Four Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea
- Section Five Positive airway pressure to treat obstructive sleep apnea
- Section Six Alternatives to positive airway pressure in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
- Section Seven Diagnosis and treatment of chronic insomnia
- Section Eight Restless legs syndrome and periodic leg movements
- Section Nine Parasomnias
- Section Ten Circadian rhythm sleep disorders
- Section Eleven Missed diagnoses of obstructive sleep apnea can exacerbate medical and neurologic conditions
- Section Twelve Sleep in children
- Section Thirteen Sleep in older persons
- Index
9 - Neither subjective nor objective measures allow confident prediction of future risk for motor vehicle crashes due to sleepiness
from Section two - Assessment of daytime sleepiness
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Book contents
- Common Pitfalls in Sleep Medicine
- Common Pitfalls in Sleep Medicine
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: the complexity, challenges, and rewards of effective sleep medicine
- Section one Sleepiness versus fatigue, tiredness, and lack of energy
- Section two Assessment of daytime sleepiness
- 7 Patient complaints, subjective questionnaires, and objective measures of sleepiness may not coincide
- 8 Daytime sleepiness and obstructive sleep apnea severity: where symptoms and metrics do not converge
- 9 Neither subjective nor objective measures allow confident prediction of future risk for motor vehicle crashes due to sleepiness
- 10 A sleep apnea patient with excessive daytime sleepiness and subtle respiratory events may be misdiagnosed with narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia
- Section three Diagnosis of narcolepsy
- Section Four Diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea
- Section Five Positive airway pressure to treat obstructive sleep apnea
- Section Six Alternatives to positive airway pressure in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea
- Section Seven Diagnosis and treatment of chronic insomnia
- Section Eight Restless legs syndrome and periodic leg movements
- Section Nine Parasomnias
- Section Ten Circadian rhythm sleep disorders
- Section Eleven Missed diagnoses of obstructive sleep apnea can exacerbate medical and neurologic conditions
- Section Twelve Sleep in children
- Section Thirteen Sleep in older persons
- Index
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- Common Pitfalls in Sleep MedicineCase-Based Learning, pp. 48 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014