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 …

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 …

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 …

Sleep-disordered breathing, ranging from habitual snoring to severe obstructive sleep
apnea, is a prevalent public health issue. Despite rising interest in sleep and awareness of …

There is an imbalance between patient need, research opportunities, public and
congressional support of research on sleep and its disorders, and the relative lack of interest …

In this issue of the Journal (pp. 668–672), Flemons and colleagues (1) provide a fascinating
account of how sleep medicine services are provided in different countries. With the …

In the course of 2010, the Journal published several original investigations that relate to
sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) as a multisystem disorder involvement. As in previous …

The leaders from the American Thoracic Society (ATS), the American College of Chest
Physicians (ACCP), and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) have met to …

Respiratory disorders during sleep have become recognized in recent decades as an
important branch of respiratory medicine. These disorders include conditions that are …

The constellation of conditions associated with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) has
emerged as a highly prevalent multifactorial array of conditions that are, in turn, associated …