Leah Lowe – Beyond Bedtime Battles: Managing Pediatric Sleep Disorders
Description Of Beyond Bedtime Battles: Managing Pediatric Sleep Disorders
Join in an insightful session exploring the complex realm of pediatric sleep disorders. Dr. Lowe, who works with sleep disorders every day, will provide an in-depth exploration of common sleep disturbances affecting children, including insomnia, sleep apnea, and parasomnias. Discover effective assessment techniques and evidence-based interventions to help identify and manage these challenges. Promoting healthier sleep pattens for children and their families.
What You’ll Learn In Beyond Bedtime Battles: Managing Pediatric Sleep Disorders
Objectives
- Identify key characteristics of common sleep disorders.
- Apply evidence-based assessment techniques, including validated screening tools to assist in the diagnosis of various sleep disorders.
- Implement a range of effective interventions and management strategies for pediatric sleep disorders, incorporating behavior, pharmacological, and environmental approaches, to optimize sleep habits in children and adolescents.
Outline
- Overview of Sleep
- History & Physical
Sleep Diagnostics
- Polysomnography
- Labs
- X-rays
- MRI Brain/Brain stem
Sleep management strategies
- Sleep Hygiene
- Sleep Specialists
Medical Sleep Disorders
- Sleep-disordered Breathing in Infants
- BRUEs
- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
- Restless Sleepers
- Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
- NarcolepsyIdiopathic Hypersomnia
- Pediatric OSA
- Allergies
- GERD
- Obesity
- Central Apnea
- Periodic breathing
- CPAP
Special Sleep Populations
- Down Syndrome
- Prader-Willi Syndrome
- Angelman Syndrome
- Pierre Robin Syndrome
- Treacher Collins syndrome
- Kleine-Levin Syndrome
Behavioral Sleep Disorders
- Bedtime Resistance and Fears
- Creative Solutions
- Pediatric Insomnia
- Behavioral Insomnia of Childhood
- Early Morning Risers
- Parasomnias and REM Sleep Behavior Disorder
- Adolescent Sleep Disorders
- Pediatric Autism, ADHD, and Sleep
- Common Pediatric Sleep Medications
- Socioeconomic Considerations in Pediatric Sleep
- Cultural Considerations in Sleep
About Leah Lowe
Leah Lowe, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC, is a pediatric nurse practitioner for The Children’s Lung, Asthma, and Sleep Specialists in Melbourne and Port St. Lucie, Florida. After a decade in adult nursing, she transitioned to pediatrics. In her years as a pediatric nurse, she worked in a variety of acute care settings, including the critical care step-down and pediatric emergency department. She is a graduate of University of Florida’s BSN-DNP acute care pediatric nurse practitioner program.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Leah Lowe has an employment relationship with The Children’s Lung, Asthma, and Sleep Specialists. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Leah Lowe is a member of the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses and the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners.
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