Jones & Bartlett Learning Essentials Of Polysomnography: A Training Guide and Reference for Sleep Technicians

Essentials of Polysomnography, Second Edition is a 386-page, full colour text designed specifically for sleep technicians and professionals. The new compact design and layout includes the same amount of content from the First Edition, with updated content and images. This textbook is written by William H. Spriggs, a certified sleep technician, and is used in hospitals, sleep labs, physician offices, and colleges and universities around the world. The Second Edition is ideal for training new sleep technicians, and students interested in studying polysomnography, as well as physicians, sleep lab managers, DME reps, and sleep lab front office staff members. The Second Edition is also a great reference and study tool to help prepare for the RPSGT and CPSGT certification exams. The new edition's content and questions reflect the new ICSD-3 classifications, AASM Rules and address the BRPT new exam blueprints as well as the revised AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events released in July 2013, content includes: An overview of normal sleep and the history of sleep disorders Patient education and the patient flow process Life as a Sleep Technician Patient hook-up Procedures Polysomnography overview and interpretation paediatric sleep medicine Hundreds of sample epochs depicting sleep stages, artifacts, and events New chapters/topics in the Second Edition include: Medical and Neurological effects on sleep Effects of Medicine on Sleep Additional coverage and review questions on Data Storage and Archiving More in-depth coverage of paediatrics, including paediatric scoring information Updated, as well as more, coverage on ECG All content is updated to reflect the ICSD-3, AASM, and BRPT changes