Polysomnography Course & Sleep Medicine Review 2005
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POLYSOMNOGRAPHY COURSE & SLEEP MEDICINE REVIEW
SEPT 17 - 18, 2005
Target Audience:
Healthcare providers interested in the Laboratory Evaluation and Management of Sleep Disorders: Physicians-intraining, General Practitioners, Specialists (Dental & ENT surgeons, Neurologists, Paediatricians, Psychiatrists, Respiratory Physicians), PSG Technologists and Respiratory Therapists should attend this course.
Objectives:
This 2-day course will give an Overview of Sleep Medicine from a multidisciplinary perspective, with an emphasis on Practical Polysomnography with Clinical Correlation. The following subjects will be discussed in lectures and workshops:
- Basic Mechanisms of Normal Sleep
- Overview of Common Adult & Paediatric Sleep Disorders
- Management of Sleep Related Breathing Disorders, including CPAP Therapy and Upper Airway Surgery
- Laboratory Evaluation of Sleep with Clinical Correlation
- Fundamentals of Polysomnography Technology & Interpretation of Sleep Studies (including Staging of Sleep, Scoring Rules, MSLT and MWT)
- Demonstration of Common Adult & Paediatric Polysomnographic Abnormalities, Pitfalls in PSG Interpretation (including Recognition of Physiologic & Non-Physiologic PSG Artifacts)
Call for Case Studies:
Participants are invited to submit interesting or difficult case studies or polysomnograms with diagnostic or management issues for discussion during the course.
Please provide a brief summary of the case (history, physical, laboratory investigations and questions for discussion).
These can be forwarded to the Organising Committee at: gnrlll@sgh.com.sg
CLOSING DATELINE for submission is 31 July 2005.
Faculty
Course Directors:
Dr K Puvanendran MBBS, MRCP, FAMS, FRCP
President, Singapore Sleep Society
Senior Consultant Neurologist,
National Neuroscience Institute,
Singapore General Hospital
Dr Lim Li Ling MBBS, MRCP, MMed, Dip. ABSM, ABPN, ABCN, ABEM (USA)
Consultant Neurologist,
National Neuroscience Institute,
Singapore General Hospital
Members:
- Dr Cheong Tuck Hong - Consultant Respiratory Physician, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
- Dr Ng Beng Yeong - Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Singapore General Hospital
- Dr Andrew Pan - Consultant Neurologist, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore General Hospital
- Dr Adrian Saurajen - Consultant ENT Surgeon, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
- Dr Jenny Tang - Consultant Paediatrician, KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital
Guest Faculty:
- Dr Tayard Desudchit Dip. ABPN - Consultant Paediatric Neurologist, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
- Dr Jin Kyu Han Dip. ABSM - Consultant Neurologist, Korea University College of Medicine, South Korea
- Dr Albert Rafanan Dip. ABSM - Consultant Respiratory & Sleep Physician, Chong Hua Hospital, Phillipines
- Dr Arthur Teng - Consultant Paediatrician & Sleep Physician, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Australia
- Dr Nantaporn Tiyapun - Consultant Neurologist, University of Chiangmai, Thailand
- Bruce Williamson BSc, RPSGT - Sydney Children’s Hospital, Australia
Local Faculty:
- Dr Daniel Goh - Consultant Paediatrician, National University Hospital
- Dr Goh Yau Hong - Consultant ENT Surgeon, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
- Peggy Ler RRT - Singapore General Hospital
- Dr Lim Kheng Ann - Consultant Dental Surgeon, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
- Dr Lim Li Ling - Consultant Neurologist, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore General Hospital
- Dr Constance Lo Pau Lin - Consultant Respiratory Physician, Singapore General Hospital
- Dr Ng Beng Yeong - Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Singapore General Hospital
- Dr Ong Kian Chung - Consultant Respiratory Physician, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
- Dr Andrew Pan - Consultant Neurologist, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore General Hospital
- Dr Adrian Saurajen - Consultant ENT Surgeon, Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre
- Tan Choy Hoon RPSGT - KK Women’s & Children’s Hospital
- Dr Jenny Tang - Consultant Paediatrician & Respiratory Physician, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital
- Dr Sridhar Venkateswaran - Consultant Respiratory Physician, Changi General Hospital
- Dr Yeo Poh Teck - Consultant Neurologist, Gleneagles Medical Centre