(Progress in Respiratory Research. Vol. 35.) Edited by Winfried J. Randerath, Bernd M. Sanner, and Virend K. Somers. 243 pp., illustrated. Basel, Switzerland, Karger, 2006. $171. ISBN 978-3-8055-8049-6.
The rapid growth of sleep-disorder medicine as a subspecialty,and with it the growing number of patients in all medical settingswho have received diagnoses of sleep disorders, has createdthe need for reference works accessible to the clinician seekinga focused and succinct introduction to the field. This is particularlytrue for the sleep apnea syndromes, as those are arguably thesleep disorder diagnoses having the largest effect on the restof medicine. In addition, the recent inclusion of training insleep-disorder medicine as a formal requirement of fellowshipprograms in pulmonary and critical-care medicine has highlighteda serious . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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