Sleep medicine and Anesthesia
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Dryacku said:
i dont know.
that might mean stepping on neurology's toes.
we cant take everything from them.
just kidding.
but i would be surprised if such a thing exists. dont see much of a relationship between the two. although both deal with respiratory and neurological physiology. unless there is something about the treatment of sleep disorders i dont know about, that would require an anesthesiologist.
may need to make a choice.
it'll be interesting to see what others have to say.
Neurologists dont have that field totally locked up. Ive seen others do it as well namely pulmonologists and other IM guys. Is there much money in it I mean other than a personal interest what would be the lure to give up time from a normal practice?
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usnavdoc said:
Cuppla ENT dudes built a Taj Majal sleep center at my previos gig's location...
there is money in sleep studies, at least for now.
Dryacku said:
I would TOTALLY be up for this!! I'm fascinated by sleep science. . .especially the neurology of it.
Just for everyones info.... Sleep medicine is what pain used to be and may still be.. its young and very very lucrative... i know that for a fact.. that why im interested in it... however i would kill myself doin neuro, im, or ent to practice it... i dont know what the future hold but I feel like it should be good...
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Dryacku said:
what? why don't you write some more explaining what you mean.
are you premed?
just so you know, patients under anesthesia aren't sleeping.
Dryacku said:
Yup. I've heard the same. I know a few docs who have set up sleep centers, and they're making some serious cheddar on it.
On another note, sleep has always been an intriguing topic for me. One of the reasons I like anesthesia is that there is a whole lot of unknowns, which also happens to be true for sleep. In fact, I was thinking that the only drawback of ansthesia is that we don't do sleep studies.
Even so, I think we are just now starting to scratch the surface of the importance of sleep with the recent studies of stroke, and MI correlations to sleep quality. I've personally made it a note to ask my patients how they sleep, and related questions when I'm on my more IM-ish rotations. I'm willing to bet that sleep optimization will be a 2-week pre-op requirement sometime in the future. Actually, I think I found a topic for my first research topic 👍 . Can you imagine what would happen to the shares of the drug companies that sell lunesta/ambien?
usnavdoc said:
There are three standard ways to get certified in sleep medicine: through neurology, pulmonary, and psychiatry. Sleep is a fellowship that you can do from any of these specialties. They are moving towards making it a true board certification process, and have recently made the training requirements more stringent. For example, it used to be that pulmonary fellows only had to do 6 months of extra clinical work to get sleep certified, but now it's a full year plus an exam. I've never heard of anesthesiologists going into sleep, but since the american board of sleep medicine considers themselves a multidisciplinary board, they may be pretty accepting of other specialists besides those in the 'big three' getting certified in sleep.
FYI ENT guys will often focus in OSA surgical treatments, but they are usually not certified in sleep medicine.
For now, sleep medicine is a very lucrative field. I think of it as the dermatology of pulmonary -- it's pretty damn boring, but people go into it because it's got great hours, you make bank, and the job market is wide open. A lot of my pulmonary co-fellows are going to be getting sleep certifications -- they seem quite happy about the field, especially since it's so laid back and they won't have to compromise any salary (they'll probably make more than I will.... oh well....)
