Users must watch each video in its entirety, complete post-test (10 minutes, 80% passing grade, two attempts) and complete an evaluation for each lecture. Course must be completed by September 25, 2024.

This program has been approved for a maximum of 10.00 contact hours Continuing Sleep Technology Education (CSTE) credit by the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists 8400 Westpark Drive 2nd Floor McLean VA 22102. Program #585P1413 Approval #711258

Lecture #1 PARASOMNIAS: THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT Presenter: JOSEPH KRAININ, MD, FAASM
Learning objectives: Duration: 68 minutes
1. Identify the most common parasomnias
2. Understand their etiologies
3. Becomes familiar with the ICD - 3 diagnostic criteria for the disorder discovered

Lecture #2 THE IMPACT OF SLEEP DISORDERS ON SCHOOL PERFORMANCE AND DAYTIME BEHAVIOR
Presenter: ROCHELLE ZOZULA, PH.D, D-ABSM
Learning objectives: Duration: 60 minutes
1. Understand normal sleep patterns in children and adolescents.
2. Delineate specific sleep disorders in children.
3. Discuss how school performance and daytime behavior are affected by sleep disorders and certain sleep patterns.
4. Discuss early identification, diagnosis, and treatment of common pediatric sleep disorders.

Lecture #3 PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF OSA IN CMV OPERATORS
Presenter: Robert Stanton
Learning objectives: Duration: 71 minutes
1. understand why truck drivers are often upset about needing a sleep study
2. Why drivers need CPAP compliance downloads DOT medical examiner's
3. How to power a CPAP in a 12-volt DC Sleeper Berth equipped truck
4. Special consideration in treatment options other than CPAP

Lecture #4 COVID-19 & SLEEP APNEA: WHAT EVERY TECHNOLOGIST NEEDS TO KNOW
Presenter: MATTHEW ANASTASI, BS, RPSGT
Learning objectives: Duration: 70 minutes
1. Understand the interrelatedness of Sleep Quality and the coronavirus Public Health emergency.
2. Provide targeted sleep hygiene interventions to patients as a relates to the pandemic.
3. Describe overlap factors of sleep apnea comorbidities and risk factors for poor outcomes from COVID-19 infection.
4. Develop an evidence-based approach to improving the odds for positive outcomes from COVID-19 infection in patients suspected of OSA.

Lecture #5 OSA AND PULMONARY HYPERTENSION: ASSOCIATION, CAUSATION AND TREATMENTS
Presenter: HERBERT PATRICK, MD, MSEE
Learning objectives: Duration: 49 minutes
1. Know that pulmonary hypertension is difficult to diagnose, often requiring a right heart catheterization.
2. Understand that pulmonary hypertension is more common in patients with OSA.
3. Realize when proper OSA treatment fails to relieve symptoms, these symptoms may be due to pulmonary hypertension
4. Recognize the categories and functions of medications indicated to treat pulmonary hypertension

Lecture #6 HOME SLEEP TESTING & THE FUTURE FOR RPSGTS Presenter: Robert Taylor, RPSGT
Duration: 57 minutes Learning objectives:
1. Apply the knowledge to either be better techs or become leaders.
2. We need to fix the broken process of testing and treating patients.

Lecture #7 AI's Role in Mask Fitting Presenters: William Kaigler and Eric Mongeau
Duration: 62 minutes Learning objectives:
1. Understand the benefits of a virtual mask-fitting process.
2. Understand key elements of a successful virtual mask fitting process implementation.
3. Understand the tools currently available to DMEs to support a virtual mask-fitting process

Lecture #8 PATIENT EDUCATION: HELPING PATIENTS HELP THEMSELVES Presenter: CHERYL MEMMINI, RRT, RPSGT, CCSH Duration: 59 minutes
Learning objectives:
1. Why patient education about their sleep disorder is necessary.
2. How patient education helps improve PAP compliance.
3. Why tailoring patient education to include how it impacts their overall health is important.

Lecture #9 Alternatives to CPAP - An Overview Presenter: SUSAN HOEFS, CCSH, RPSGT, RST
Duration: 50 minutes Learning objectives:
1. Gain a basic understanding of alternatives to CPAP for treatment of OSA.
2. Learn skills in persuading patients to at least do a trial of CPAP.
3. Learn what other treatments are available in the case of a patient failing CPAP.
4. Acquire information about the most up-to-date treatments, including scams and treatments that aren't proven.

Lecture #10 BRPT Pediatric Sleep Certificate Program: An Overview
Presenter: MICHAEL MCLELAND, PHD, RPSGT Duration: 61 minutes
Learning objectives:
1. Discuss with others the need for the pediatric certificate.
2. Each participant will be able to describe the four different domains and be aware of the subsections of the pediatric exam.
3. Determine the most appropriate reference material to study for the pediatric exam.