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Education of health care professionals in advances in sleep medicine.
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A sleep specialist discusses his personal struggles and successes with using CPAP
How can we help commercial drivers and yet protect the public?
How can we most optimally but safety serve commercial and private pilots?
Should all patients who have suffered a stroke be checked for sleep apnea? A neurologist with expertise in this area discusses the problem.
We discuss why most trials have shown negative results and what changes are needed for future studies.
Is OSA a single disorder? The future for patients may lie in the identification of different physiologic subgroups.
Has the advent of GLP-1 agonists changed the management of OSA? We discuss the trials and the reality.
Oronasal and jaw surgeries for OSA have changed considerably. An expert surgeon discusses their role in the management of the disorder.
A surgeon and a sleep specialist discuss the reality of this widely advertised procedure.
A specialist dentist discusses oral appliances as an alternative for the management of mild to moderate OSA
The diagnosis of REM sleep behavior disorder needs, in addition to dream enactment behavior, a determination that EMG activity is excessive during REM sleep. But what is excessive? In this podcast, we discuss how a practicing polysomnographer can make this determination.
Should we tell patients with dream enactment behaviors of their risk of developing Parkinson’s disease or related disorders? And, if so, how should a health care provider deliver this information? In this podcast, we explore ethics and empathy.
When we diagnose REM sleep behavior disorder, we know that there is a risk of the development of Parkinson's disease or related conditions. But how great is the risk? In this podcast, we discuss how a healthcare provider can help estimate a patient’s risk with specific questions and examination findings.
In the last two podcasts, we discussed how REM sleep behavior disorder can evolve to Parkinson's disease or related conditions and whether we can test for this risk. In this podcast, we explore the current state of the art in developing possible interventions to prevent this progression.
There has been dramatic progress in developing specific tests for disorders such as Alzheimer disease. In this podcast, we ask whether we are now at a point when we can (or should) test for Parkinson pathology in patients with dream enactment behaviors.
Probably the most concerning aspect of REM sleep behavior disorder is that it is often a prodrome for Parkinson's disease and other related conditions. In this podcast we explore current concepts of how dream enactment behaviors can progress to serious neurodegenerative disorders.
While extremely rare, homicidal behavior has been reported during episodes of sleepwalking. In this podcast, we discuss two notorious cases for which sleepwalking was offered by the defense as an explanation. Is that what really happened? What role should sleep providers play in such cases?
Violent and injurious behaviors do occasionally occur with parasomnias including REM sleep behavior disorder and sleepwalking. In this podcast, we review the types of behaviors that can occur and how best to prevent them.
Sleep walking is common in childhood. What causes it and how should it be managed? In this podcast we will discuss the nature of sleepwalking and how it can best be treated.
Eating and Sleep are both fundamental biologic drives. What happens when they coincide? In this podcast, we will explore the world of sleep related eating disorder.
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