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Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center is Accredited by American Academy of Sleep Medicine
(May 27, 2010)
The Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital has received accreditation by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). As the national accrediting body for sleep disorders centers and laboratories for sleep-related breathing disorders, the AASM is the gold standard by which the medical community and the public can evaluate sleep medicine services.
The AASM identifies sleep medicine providers who offer the highest quality of medical care for people with sleep problems. The Standards for Accreditation ensures that sleep medicine providers display and maintain proficiency in areas such as testing procedures and policies, patient safety and follow-up, and physician and staff training.
About the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center
The Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center at Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, under the direction of Carin I. Lamm, MD, Pediatric Sleep Specialist, provides the diagnosis, management, and treatment of sleep disorders in newborns, children and adolescents.
Sleep specialists take a focused and multidisciplinary approach to helping children with sleep disturbances. The Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center calls on a team of pediatric pulmonologists, a nurse practitioner, behavioral therapists, and nutritionists to evaluate and treat children with all types of sleep disorders. Pediatric specialists in neurology, endocrinology, cardiology, psychiatry, otolaryngology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, bariatric surgery, and cardiology are also consulted as needed.
The Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center offers state-of-the-art computerized equipment that permits a wide variety of evaluation techniques. Selected patients may require a polysomnogram, an overnight sleep study in the Center's comfortable and child-friendly two-bed sleep laboratory located in the Sarah E. Nash Lung Center. Parents stay overnight with their child, while technicians monitor the child continuously and also provide one-on-one care for physical and emotional support.
For more information on the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center, please call (212) 305-5122.
