Epidemiology: Principles and Application in Sleep Medicine
For example, what is the probability that our snoring patient has sleep apnea? We know from literature that about 90 % of patients with obstructive sleep apnea snore (sensibility). We also…
Sleep and Anesthesia: Different States with Shared Pathophysiological Traits
Fig. 10.1 Human brain imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) reveals anatomically distributed changes in brain function across states of arousal. a PET imaging of cerebral blood flow (CBF) in 37…
Effects of Sleep Deprivation and Sleepiness on Society and Driving
Fig. 4.1 Social–ecological framework The social–ecological model of sleep and health is based on this approach. The model, presented in Fig. 4.2, conceptualizes sleep in the context of both upstream and downstream…
Multiple Sleep Latency Test
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017Sudhansu Chokroverty (ed.)Sleep Disorders Medicinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6578-6_22 22. Multiple Sleep Latency Test Thomas Roth1 and Timothy A. Roehrs2 (1) Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders and Research Center, Wayne State University Medical School, 2799 W….
Dreaming and Sleep Disorder
Affected neuroreceptor—drug class Patient reports of nightmares and/or disturbed/abnormal dreaming Norepinephrine—beta blockers Atenolol CT [nightmares 3/20 patients] Bisoprolol CT [nightmares 3/68 patients] Labetalol CT [nightmares 5/175 patients] Oxprenolol CT [nightmares…
Sleep Deprivation and Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
Physiologic causes Sleep deprivation and sleepiness related to lifestyle and irregular sleep–wake schedule Pathologic causes Primary sleep disorders Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome Central sleep apnea syndrome with or without Cheyne–Stokes…
Introduction to the Topic
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2017Sudhansu Chokroverty (ed.)Sleep Disorders Medicinehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6578-6_1 1. Introduction to the Topic Clifford B. Saper1 (1) Department of Neurology, Program in Neuroscience, Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess…
Craniofacial Reconstruction in the Polytrauma Patient
Fig. 27.1 Illustration of blast mechanism from modern battlefield, e.g., IED (improvised explosive device). Vulnerable areas include cranium, face, neck, including vascular supply Fig. 27.2 3D CT scan demonstrating blast trauma to…
Decompressive Craniectomy for Severe TBI
Fig. 19.1 Axial noncontrast head CT demonstrating a left parieto-occipital contrecoup contusion with surrounding hypodensity and subtle bifrontal hypodensities with 5 mm of left to right midline shift. There is a right…
Hemodynamic Considerations in the Polytrauma Patient with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Equation 2: Equation 3: DO2, oxygen delivery (mL/min); CBF, cerebral blood flow (mL/100 gm brain tissue/min) Hb, hemoglobin (g/dL); SaO2, oxygen saturation (%); PaO2, partial pressure of oxygen (mm Hg); CPP,…
