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Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System Little Rock, AR

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Section of Sleep Medicine, Dartmouth Medical Center, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Lebanon, NH

Professor Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University School of Medicine, Director of Chronobiology and Sleep Research, E.P. Bradley Hospital, East Providence, RI

Praise for Teofilo L. Lee-Chiong's

Sleep Medicine Essentials

"I highly recommend this book to the clinicians and medical students who would like to sleep well knowing that they have done everything possible to make their patients' sleep restful and healthy."

—–Irina V. Zhdanova, MD, PhD, from a review in The New England Journal of Medicine

"No other publication in the field can begin to compare with the breadth or depth of [this book]."

—–From a review in PsycCRITIQUES

Sleep Medicine Essentials is a concise, handy, practical, and affordable handbook on adult and pediatric sleep medicine. It covers forty topic-focused chapters written by an international panel of contemporary authorities.

It is comprehensive enough for daily reference, with chapters on insomnia, sleep apnea, narcolepsy and other disorders of excessive sleepiness, parasomnias, circadian sleep disorders, sleep in the elderly, sleep in children, sleep among women, and sleep in medical, psychiatric, and neurological disorders. Organized in short chapters for convenience and enhanced readability, it follows the order and topical presentation of the recently instated new sleep medicine board exams, making it a highly effective review for the sleep medicine board.

Sleep Medicine Essentials is the perfect complement to the larger, previously published book, Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook (Wiley).

Doody Review Services

Reviewer:M. Isabel L. Crisostomo, MD(Rush University Medical Center)
Description:This is a practical handbook on adult and pediatric sleep medicine.
Purpose:Intended as a resource for busy clinicians, it is a complementary handbook to the more comprehensive textbook by the same editor, Sleep: A Comprehensive Handbook (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006), but it can also stand alone as a portable reference or as a review for the sleep medicine board examinations.
Audience:Although targeted primarily at sleep clinicians as a portable reference, the book's comprehensive scope also makes it useful to students of sleep medicine and other healthcare professionals interested in the field. It can certainly be used as a material for review for the sleep medicine board examinations. The editor is a leading authority in the field.
Features:The 52 chapters cover essential topics in the field of sleep medicine including the physiology of sleep; insomnia, its causes, evaluation and treatment; disorders of excessive sleepiness including narcolepsy, idiopathic hypersomnia, and posttraumatic and recurrent hypersomnia. There are ample chapters on sleep apnea, central sleep apnea, and obesity hypoventilation as well as the consequences of obstructive sleep apnea and its treatment. Later on, circadian sleep disorders, jet lag, and shift work are discussed. Chapters are also devoted to REM sleep behavior disorder, disorders of arousal, and sleep in other medical and psychiatric disorders, as well as a discussion of pediatric sleep medicine, sleep in women, and sleep in the elderly. These chapters are notable for being organized in a logical manner and being quite readable, making this an ideal review book and a handy resource.
Assessment:This is a worthy contribution to the field of sleep medicine. In its concise, portable and very readable design, the book fulfills well its role of serving as a handy resource as well as a book that will be quite useful for preparing for the sleep medicine board examinations.