Description

In need of a few CME credits? Here is a great opportunity to brush up on clinical sleep medicine topics and earn the CME you need. This purchase allows you access to 2 JCSM articles and unlimited opportunities to pass the post tests in order to earn CME credit. Each month a new pair of articles chosen by the journal editor are available for CME. Each article designated for CME is worth 1.0 AMA Category 1 Credit^TM.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 

(Article #1)-  High nocturnal periodic breathing reported by PAP adherence data predicts decompensation of heart failure

• Use the telemonitoring of positive airway pressure (PAP) machine adherence data to recognize the occurrence of high periodic breathing as a predictor of impending heart failure in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

(Article #2)- Characteristics of patients with positional OSA according to ethnicity and the identification of a novel phenotype—Lateral Positional Patients: a MESA study 

• Recognize the phenotypes of positional sleep apnea.