Clinicians' Guide to Sleep Medicine

A concise working guide for physicians managing patients with sleep-disordered breathing, insomnia, and the clinical neurophysiology of sleep. Written for respiratory physicians, neurologists and general internists who share responsibility for the sleep clinic.

The text walks from the assessment of the daytime-sleepy patient through polysomnographic interpretation to the major treatment decisions of the modern sleep service: nasal CPAP titration in obstructive sleep apnoea, mandibular advancement and surgical referral, the management of central apnoeas in heart failure, and the differential diagnosis of insomnia, parasomnias and the hypersomnias of central origin. Coverage is pitched at the registrar consolidating skills before independent clinic work.

It was written by Sir Neil J. Douglas, who founded the Scottish National Sleep Laboratory in Edinburgh in 1983 and led randomised trials underpinning CPAP therapy. Hodder Arnold issued the volume as a single-author working reference rather than a multi-author handbook, in keeping with its medical list of consultant-level practice guides.