Sleep Medicine

Question 1

What is sleep

Answer 1

A reversible state of perpetual disengagement and unresponsiveness to the environment

Question 2

Sleep symptoms

Answer 2

Sleepiness, insomnia, snoring, abnormal behaviors, nightmares, abnormal movements

Question 3

Orla malampati

Answer 3

How crowded is the pharynx

Question 4

Sleep problems arise as we age

Answer 4

truth

Question 5

Problems associated with lack of sleep

Answer 5

car accidents, sleepiness, cognitive harm, bed partner, cardiovascular disease, HTN, congestive heart failure, A fib

Question 6

LIbby Zion case

Answer 6

set resident duty hours

Question 7

REM cycles occur every 90 minutes

Answer 7

true

Question 8

What is the relationship between sleep apnea and REM cycles?

Answer 8

During periods of REM, you lose all muscle tone, so if you have sleep apnea, you are most prone to suffocation during these REM cylces. Even more, since REM cycles get progressively longer as the night goes on, you are most prone to suffocation right before you wake up

Question 9

THalamus controls sleep

Answer 9

true

Question 10

Hypothalamus controls survival drives (very small section of the brain)

Answer 10

truth

Question 11

Pathologic sleep conditions

Answer 11

Obstructive Sleep apnea, snoring, Obesity hyperventilation syndrome, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, insominia, parasomnia, circadian rhythms