AmericanSleepAcademy

Pediatric Sleep

This module is an introduction to Pediatric Sleep. It addresses normal developmental sleep patterns, performing and scoring infant and pediatric polysomnograms, manifestations of sleep disorders in infants, children, and adults (sleep-related breathing disorders, movement disorders, non-REM and REM parasomnias, circadian rhythm disorders and insomnia).

Upon completion of this module students should be able to:

* Have a general knowledge of pediatric sleep medicine
* Know the developmental sleep patterns in children
* How to interact with children
* How to perform a pediatric sleep study
* Know the various scoring criteria for pediatric PSGs

Please be advised that if you do not have a web email program, such as Outlook, connected to the computer you are using than your quiz results will not be sent when prompted to submit. When the results email prompt comes up upon completing a module it automatically populates into a message that is sent out via this program, but if it is not connected on your computer it will likely sit in an outbox.

You can easily send your results by copying the body of that email (the results) when it populates and paste it into an email going out of the email program you use (Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, Verizon, Gmail, Outlook Web Access, Etc). Be sure to indicate your name and the module the results are associated with and then send it to info@asa.us.com.

You will receive your Certificate of Completion within a week.

This course awards 1.00 hour of Continuing Education Credit.

Disclaimer:
Students must be registered in order to receive a certificate of completion.

The American Sleep and Breathing Academy's online module curriculum has been designated by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) as an alternative educational program for purposes of establishing eligibility to sit for the RPSGT exam. The curriculum is not recognized by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) for purposes of AASM facility accreditation.

Those students who have passed the BRPT exam or who are eligible to take the exam under Pathway #2, or those who are enrolled in or graduated from a CAAHEP Program do not need to be enrolled in a module program.