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Compare the efficacy and side effects of various medications in the treatment of insomnia.
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Describe the effects of light, level of melatonin in the body and sleep problems.
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Explain the correlation between the nighttime drop in temperature and sleep.
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Explain how your bedroom environment can affect your sleep.
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State four relaxation and behavioral techniques for the management of insomnia.
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Identify barriers to the appropriate integration of behavioral and relaxation approaches into the treatment of pain and insomnia.
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Explain how the behavioral and relaxation approaches in the treatment of pain and insomnia work.
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Define sleepiness, distinguish it from fatigue and describe the magnitude of problem sleepiness.
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Describe the magnitude and causes of problem sleepiness among shift workers, adolescents and young adults.
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Identify strategies that may help counter problem sleepiness in adolescents and young adults.
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Describe the prevalence, symptoms and diagnoses of four primary sleep disorders.
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Describe the effects of various drugs and stimulants on sleep and sleepiness.
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Make an assessment of whether a patient is getting an adequate quantity of sleep and identify the patient with problem sleepiness.
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Ask specific questions of a patient in the history-taking process to obtain a sleep/wake profile.
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List the risk factors for drowsy-driving crashes, identify population groups at highest risk and suggest countermeasures to prevent drowsy driving and its consequences.
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Identify elements of human performance that are impaired by sleepiness.
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Describe some tools for the assessment of chronic and situational (acute) sleepiness.
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Assess the risk for drowsy-driving crashes based on factors that include sleep loss, driving patterns, the use of sedating medications, untreated sleep disorders and consumption of alcohol.
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Identify three broad population groups at high risk for drowsy-driving crashes.
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Describe four categories of countermeasures and compare their effectiveness in reducing drowsy-driving crashes.
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Suggest behavioral interventions that reduce drowsy-driving crashes.
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Make three recommendations to reduce drowsy-driving crashes focusing on young males, promoting shoulder rumble strips and educating shift workers.
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Educate young males and shift workers about drowsy driving and how to reduce lifestyle-related risks.
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Define narcolepsy and list four classic symptoms of the disorder.
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Provide a diagnosis of narcolepsy and suggest effective courses of treatment.
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Describe restless legs syndrome and list some common symptoms.
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Identify five causes of restless legs syndrome.
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List three categories of drugs that are most commonly used to treat RLS.
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Define sleep apnea, list several common symptoms, differentiate among the three types of sleep apnea and explain basic facts about sleep apnea to a patient.
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Instruct clients concerning their children's obstructive sleep apnea, evaluation and possible treatment.
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Advise a patient about choosing a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device with the desired features and applications.
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Help the patient with sleep apnea choose an appropriate mask and headgear.
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Brief a patient who is considering surgery for OSA about various options, efficacies of the treatments and possible outcomes.
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Caution a patient with sleep apnea about the dangers of general anesthesia in any surgery.
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Define terms related to infantile apnea, such as apnea of prematurity (AOP), asymptomatic premature infants, symptomatic premature infants, apparent life-threatening event (ALTE), apnea of infancy (AOI), and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
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Describe the relation of neonatal and infant apnea to each other and to mortality (especially SIDS) and morbidity in infancy.
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Evaluate the circumstances and make recommendations to parents regarding the use of home apnea monitoring of infants.
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Describe the jet lag phenomenon, list the factors that cause jet lag, identify people who get jet lag and prescribe some of the techniques for reducing jet lag.
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Explain the changes in sleep and wakefulness as functions of aging and of diseases of older people and name the diagnostic criteria that establish clinical abnormalities.
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Provide indications for the treatment of sleep disorders, specifically obstructive sleep apnea and insomnia, in older individuals.
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Describe the common medical practices and lay treatment practices and their health implications for patients with insomnia and hypersomnia.
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Outline the issues that the medical profession and general public should know about good sleep hygiene and treatment of sleep disorders.
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Describe behavioral, mechanical and surgical approaches to the treatment of sleep apnea.
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