Pioneering in clinical pediatric sleep medicine: an interesting journey.

Richard Ferber
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In 1978, as a young pediatrician, I became interested in the developing field of clinical sleep medicine and set out on a journey into uncharted waters, namely into the previously non-existent field of pediatric sleep medicine. I describe my early training (in a specialty where no formal training programs existed), my excellent mentors, my early struggles to work with equipment that was both primitive by today's standards and not designed to work with children and infants, and various other obstacles I initially faced. I also share some of early findings in pediatric insomnia, sleepiness, parasomnias, and rhythm disorders, and I outline some of our efforts to develop new treatment approaches and techniques where scientifically based ones previously did not exist. Finally, I try to describe translating what I was learning about children and their sleep problems into a wide-ranging book to help parents, especially those who were sleep-deprived themselves.

临床儿科睡眠医学的先驱:一个有趣的旅程。
1978年,作为一名年轻的儿科医生,我对临床睡眠医学的发展领域产生了兴趣,并开始了一段未知的旅程,即进入以前不存在的儿科睡眠医学领域。我描述了我早期的训练(在一个没有正式培训项目的专业中),我优秀的导师,我早期与设备的斗争,这些设备以今天的标准来看是原始的,不适合儿童和婴儿使用,以及我最初面临的各种其他障碍。我还分享了一些在儿童失眠、嗜睡、睡眠异常和节律障碍方面的早期发现,并概述了我们为开发新的治疗方法和技术所做的一些努力,这些方法和技术以前没有科学依据。最后,我试图将我所学到的关于儿童及其睡眠问题的知识翻译成一本内容广泛的书,以帮助父母,尤其是那些自己睡眠不足的父母。
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