Research on the sleep apnea syndromes has a history of about 2 decades, but the
widespread application of research results in clinical practice has only taken place in the …

During the past ten years, the divergent fields of sleep physiology and cardiopulmonary
medicine have come to focus on the problem of breathing disorders during sleep …

Today's physician is fortunate to be associated with a time of rapid development in
information on cardiorespiratory disorders during sleep. We are living in a time where …

That disorders of breathing during sleep are common is increasingly evident as both
clinicians and investigators have become acutely cognizant of nocturnal respiratory events …

Many of us who manage patients with sleep apnea have received a communication similar
to this:" We will deny the request for a CPAP machine because the apnea index is only 16" …

William C. Orr, Ph. D. since the late 1960s a voluminous literature has accumulated
testifYing to the ubiquity of sleeprelated breathing disorders. The realization that such …

CHEST/115/3/MARCH, 1999 607 evaluate and treat all types of sleep disorders when they
are not adequately trained to do so. Should every sleep laboratory be ASDA accredited …

This book provides an overview of sleep and sleep disorders for practicing clinicians. Sleep
disorders represent a major portion of the chief complaints seen by pulmonologists and …

The number of people in the USA with sleep disorders approaches 40 million, with sleep
apnea being the most common medical illness producing problem sleepiness. This well …

Respiratory sleep medicine began in 1965 with the original polysomnographic description of
obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) by Gastaut and colleagues (1). Since then, we have …