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

1. Identify key characteristics of common sleep disorders.
2. Apply evidence-based assessment techniques, including validated screening tools to assist in the diagnosis of various sleep disorders.
3. 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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