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The Essentials of Sleep Technology is a compilation of three previously published reference manuals:
- A Technologist’s Guide to Performing Sleep Studies
- A Technologist’s Handbook for Understanding and Implementing the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events: Rules, Terminology and Technical Specifications
- A Technologist’s Introduction to Sleep Disorders
The three sections of the Essentials of Sleep Technology provide background and learning opportunities for three distinct phases in a sleep technologist’s development. The Guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to obtain an artifact-free study that conforms to published standards. The Handbook prepares the technologist for the task of scoring the sleep recording and preparing data for the sleep specialist to use in determining the patient’s correct diagnosis. And the Introduction allows the technologist to put the sleep study in the broader context of sleep medicine by providing an accessible version of the International Classification of Sleep Disorders, Second Edition.
The Essentials of Sleep Technology is an ideal resource for sleep centers as well as for formal training programs including AASM A-STEP Introductory Courses and Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) sleep technology programs. It provides an excellent alternative to existing reference materials, some of which are too brief (providing only a pocket guide for quick reference), and others too detailed (containing complex equations and information that has little applicability to the actual work of sleep technologists). The text is comprehensive yet accessible for most learners.
Contents:
I. A Technologist’s Guide to Performing Sleep Studies
- Review the Patient Chart
- Welcome the Patient to the Sleep Center
- Prepare the Patient for Electrode Application and Apply Electrodes
- Test the Electrode Application
- During the Recording: Provide Documentation and Maintain the Recording Quality
- Sleep Center Emergencies and Interventions
- Ending the Sleep Study
- A Final Word
- Glossary
- Additional Resources
- Study Question Answers
II. A Technologist’s Handbook for Understanding and Implementing the AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and Associated Events
- Technical and Digital Specifications
- Visual Rules
- Arousal Rule
- Cardiac Rules
- Movement Rules
- Respiratory Rules
- Parameters to be Reported for Polysomnography
III. A Technologist’s Introduction to Sleep Disorders
- Insomnias
- Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
- Hypersomnias
- Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
- Parasomnias
- Sleep Related Movement Disorders
- The Range of Normal
- Glossary
- Additional Resources
- Study Question Answers
242 pages. ©2010 American Academy of Sleep Medicine