Sleep-disordered breathing has long been the provenance of pulmonologists, particularly in
the United States because much of the field of clinical sleep medicine has been defined by …

Sleep-associated breathing disorders have been recognized for centuries and colorful de
scriptions can be found in historical texts, yet little attention was paid to these disorders until …

A discipline is dying if there are no more questions being asked or no one cares to ask them.
This year marks the first time that a relatively large number of professionals with specialty …

Sleep disorders are highly prevalent in patients with coexistent lung disease. The normal
sleep state is associated with changes in respiratory physiology and airway anatomy that …

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 …

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 …

The growing appreciation of the high prevalence of sleep apnea and the dramatic health
benefits that may be derived by treating it with nasal CPAP has been accompanied by a …

Purpose Herein we report the results of an informal survey of approximately 350 physicians
attending the American College of Chest Physicians meeting in October 1995. Methods With …

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 …

Reena Mehra; Douglas E. Moul; Kingman P. Strohl management strategies for SBDs
therefore must involve not only multidisciplinary expertise but also a team-based approach …