Presented live February 4, 2009. Speaker: Deborah Givan, MD. This webinar reviews developmental aspects of sleep and breathing with emphasis on how this impacts obstructive sleep apnea in children. Symptoms of OSA in children and stress the differences in performing and interpreting sleep studies in children are reviewed. The important differences in approaches to both assessment and treatment of children versus adults are covered. Problems in children that are unique to the age are touched on briefly. 

 

Dr. Deborah C. Givan, MD is a member of the Section of Pediatric Pulmonology, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine and a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics. She joined the faculty of Indiana University School of Medicine in 1984 after training in Indiana at Methodist and Riley Children’s Hospital and Baylor University in Houston. She was practiced and taught as an assistant professor at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before returning to Indiana. She has received her board certification in Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology and was certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine in 1997. She has been the Director of the Children's Apnea and Sleep Disorders Program at Riley Children's Hospital since 1987. This program has performed more than 37,000 sleep studies on children. She has participated through the American Thoracic Society in the development of guidelines for studying sleep in children and authored several book chapters on the subject. Her interests include sleep disorders in children with neuromuscular disease, apnea in infancy, and behavioral sleep disorders.

 

February 4, 2010

 

The Board Review Trouble Spots webinars are aimed at “trouble spots” from the 2007 American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) sleep medicine certification examination. Among all candidates of the 2007 exam, the poorest scores were seen in the areas of pharmacology, considerations and disorders unique to childhood, and organ system physiology. During these webinars, experts in these areas provide information to help you begin to fill in gaps in your knowledge. Presentations included in this series are:

Webinar CME
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This webinar has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Their Elements of the ACCME by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine will award 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

PC compatible only (Windows operating systems). Not compatible with Macintosh operating systems.

 

The AASM uses interactive webinar technology as part of the Sleep Education Series. For those who participate in the live events, this provides up-to-date continuing education from experts in sleep medicine without the need for travel. These lectures are now available in a convenient CD-ROM format. The CDs replicate all of the multimedia presentation during the Sleep Education Series webinar. Slides appear in the center of the screen, the audio portion includes the moderator, speaker and questions from the participants, and a chat room contains comments from the participants. The archive runs in real time; navigation is allowed using a sliding bar with time marker or by clicking on a slide title.