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SLEE5106: Advanced Sleep Medicine
2024 unit information
This unit of study will introduce the student to a broader understanding of the relationships between sleep and sleep disordered breathing with a wide range of common clinical conditions. Modules include discussion of links between sleep disordered breathing and comorbid conditions such as cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, and cancer. Implications of sleep-disordered breathing in pregnancy, respiratory disease and other conditions are examined. Sleep disorders specific to the paediatric population and the role of dental sleep medicine is presented. The importance of sleepiness and sleep disorders in the community in the eyes of the law is examined with emerging technologies used for diagnosis and treatment of primarily sleep related breathing disorders completing the unit. Learning will include regular short answer quizzes, as well as broader written assessments that encourage the student to look into the future.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sleep Medicine
| Code | SLEE5106 |
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| Academic unit | Sleep Medicine |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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SLEE5101 and SLEE5102 and SLEE5103 |
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Corequisites:
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SLEE5104 |
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Recognise that the concept of "why we sleep" cannot be attributed to any single mechanism/process but that many important functions occur exclusively during sleep
- LO2. Understand the links between sleep-disordered breathing and different comorbidities such as insulin resistance, diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, dyslipidaemia, kidney failure, pituitary disorders, neurologic disorders, COPD, asthma and cardiovascular disease
- LO3. Appreciate that aspects of cancer and its treatment may be associated with sleep disturbances and understand that factors associated with obstructive sleep apnea can promote cancer growth and increase mortality
- LO4. Understand the physical and hormonal factors that influence sleep and breathing in pregnancy and appreciate the nuances of SDB in pregnancy that can impact maternal and foetal health
- LO5. Understand the relationship between sleep/sleep-disordered breathing and gastrointestinal problems, chronic pain, blood disorders, dermatological disorders and miscellaneous disorders such as AIDS, Lyme disease, chronic fatigue syndrome and African sleeping sickness
- LO6. Gain an overview of disorders that first present in childhood including Down's Syndrome, achondroplasia, Prader-Willi syndrome, Ehler-Danlos syndrome, Ellis-van Creveld syndrome, Noonan syndrome, Pierre-Robin sequence, mucopolysaccharidosis and osteogenesis imperfecta and their relationship with sleep and sleep-disordered breathing
- LO7. Appreciate the changes that occur in sleep and breathing from infancy to adolescence, understanding the differences between children and adults in the clinical presentation, epidemiology and testing of sleep disorders and gain insight into the various treatment options available in the paediatric population
- LO8. Understand the prevalence, pathophysiology and treatment of sleep bruxism, links to sleep disordered breathing and temporomandibular disorders and understand the importance of orthodontic treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, particularly in children
- LO9. Gain insight into the relevance of sleepiness and sleep disorders in the eyes of the law and understand the relevant sleep loss phenomena that impact on performance
- LO10. Understand the different signals that are used for detection of SDB in the home, appreciate the positive and negative aspects of consumer devices and apps and understand how novel treatment options work and the physiologic targets of experimental therapies
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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