MEIR H. KRYGER
ATLAS OF CLINICAL SLEEP MEDICINE
(TẬP BẢN ĐỒ VỀ Y HỌC LÂM SÀNG GIẤC NGỦ)
PUBLISHER: ELSEVIER SAUNDERS (2010)
THÔNG TIN CHUNG:
Tên sách: Atlas of Clinical Sleep Medicine (tạm dịch: Tập bản đồ về Y học lâm sàng giấc ngủ).
Tác giả: Meir H. Kryger.
NXB: Elsevier Saunders (2010).
Số trang: 424.
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INTRODUCTION (GIỚI THIỆU):
Our understanding of sleep and sleep disorders is fairly recent. Rapid eye movement (REM) Sleep was first described in the same year as Watson and Crick published their important findings on the structure of DNA. Most people consider the discovery of REM the beginning of sleep science and sleep medicine. Up to that time, sleep was seldom mentioned by scientists but had been a topic for philosophers, such as Aristotle; Playwrights, such as Shakespeare; Novelists, such as Charles Dickens; And many visual artists, such as Vincent van Gogh. The visual artists did not simply portray sleep as a restful phase, but at times recorded the danger that sleep might bring.
In this book we are trying something new. We are trying to add to the knowledge about sleep by not simply focusing on words to transmit that knowledge, but also to use still and moving images and sounds to enhance the understanding of the science of sleep. I began by asking myself, “How would a great scientist and artist have tackled this job?” I immediately thought about Leonardo da Vinci and wondered how he would do such a project. I believe that he would have combined words with engaging visual imagery and whatever else was available in the scientific and communication universe of his day.
This book is substantially different than any book I’ve worked on before. Sleep medicine is a multidisciplinary field that is so much more than just sleep recordings—it is a perfect specialty in which to use multimedia for learning. Having grown up in medical school with Netter’s brilliant atlases, my goal was to produce a volume in the spirit of Netter while including more types of content (images, videos, sleep recordings) Than is possible with a conventional book. Putting together this book was like working on a painting—a giant mural. We had ideas about the information we wanted to convey, and we pondered how to use multimedia to present the knowledge, with a book being the anchor. I would like to thank the authors for the brilliant job they have done in capturing sleep medicine in a visual form.
I have always believed that knowledge of a medical field is not simply mastering the clinical facts but also understanding the interaction of history, the arts, and the scientific base that lead to the clinical facts. The anatomic drawings of Leonardo da Vinci remind us of the potential beauty of learning about science.
This is not the editor’s first attempt at creating a multimedia platform for sleep disorders. Many years ago, I put together Journey into Sleep, a program that was CD-based that could link to Internet sites. The publishing world was convinced, as was I, that the physical book printed on paper was dead. We were all wrong. About a decade ago, it became apparent that CDs and DVDs as primary sources of content were doomed because the Internet was so much more convenient and that is where people expect to find certain types of content. However, physical books survived and have flourished. This book and its multimedia content were made possible by a flurry of recent technological changes: High-speed Internet, inexpensive mass storage, high-resolution graphics cards and computer displays, digital photography, and sleep data acquisition systems.
There are many photographs in the Atlas. Acquiring the images required a high-resolution camera that could fit into a pocket. Patients were delighted that their images would be used for teaching and they gave permission to include them.
Previously, sleep medicine atlases displayed data originally collected on paper, which resulted in images that could be changed with great difficulty, and they could not emphasize certain teaching points easily. The examples in this book represent what is actually seen in the modern sleep disorders center, warts and all, using various data acquisition systems. The traces shown are real, and the montages used are those that enhance understanding and clarity.
By using digital data acquisition and analysis systems, we are able to emphasize the important teaching points much more easily than when paper was used. We are able to change the time base, compress the data, and split the screen so that the neurophysiologic variables can be shown optimally while the cardiorespiratory variables can be shown optimally as well using a different time base. It is as easy to see 8 hours on the screen as 30 seconds.
A clinician in sleep medicine uses information from several sources to establish a diagnosis and to determine optimal treatment. These sources include interviews with the patient, examination of the patient, evaluation of tests, and integration of this data with a knowledge base that includes understanding of the relevant pathophysiology.
In a clinical learning setting, the mentor will transmit information to the trainee about each of these phases in the clinical interaction. In this book, we are attempting to emulate all parts of the process. We learn a great deal from what a patient tells us in his or her own words and from observing and evaluating the data. I hope that what is presented is helpful to the clinician and ultimately the patient. It is the patient who will benefit the most, and it is from the patient we learn the most.
TABLE OF CONTENTS (MỤC LỤC):
Front matter
Dedication
Contributors
Foreword
The Polysomnogram Recordings
Acknowledgments
Preface
C1: Sleep in Art and Literature
C2: History of Sleep Medicine and Physiology
C3: The Biology of Sleep
C4: Normal Sleep
C5: Pharmacology
C6: Dreaming
C7: Impact, Presentation, and Diagnosis
C8: Circadian Rhythm Sleep Disorders
C9: Insomnia
C10: Neurologic Disorders
C11: Sleep Breathing Disorders
C12: Parasomnias
C13: Cardiovascular Disorders
C14: Other Medical Disorders
C15: Women's Health
C16: Sleep and Psychiatric Disease
C17: Diagnostic Assessment Methods
C18: Gallery of Polysomnographic Recordings
C19: Gallery of Patient Interview Videos
C20: Gallery of Sleep Laboratory Video Findings
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