Talking Sleep Podcast 2025 Quarterly Review – 4

The field of sleep medicine is always evolving. Earn credit while listening to Talking Sleep, a podcast of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), to keep up on the latest developments in the practice of clinical sleep medicine. This product provides quarterly reviews of the AASM’s Talking Sleep Podcast Series.

Podcast Topics

1. Inside AASM: How Sleep Medicine Guidelines Are Created
2. Sleep Medicine Disruptors: Innovation Preview
3. PLATO: New Longitudinal Assessment Tool for Sleep Apnea
4. Craniofacial Sleep Medicine
5. JCSM Year in Review: Top Sleep Research of 2025

Learning Objectives

1. Explain how AASM clinical practice guidelines, advocacy priorities, and governance decisions are developed and how these processes influence reimbursement, practice sustainability, and future models of sleep care.
2. Summarize emerging innovations in sleep medicine, including novel pharmacologic therapies for obstructive sleep apnea and hybrid treatment models, and discuss their potential implications for clinical practice, patient access, and future care delivery.
3. Describe the development, validation, and intended clinical use of the PLATO assessment tool and explain how it addresses limitations of traditional measures such as the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and PAP adherence when evaluating treatment outcomes in obstructive sleep apnea.
4. Explain how craniofacial anatomy contributes to the pathophysiology of obstructive sleep apnea and describe how an anatomy‑based, multidisciplinary approach can inform personalized treatment selection beyond AHI‑based severity metrics.
5. Summarize key research findings published in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine that have important implications for diagnosis, risk assessment, and management of sleep disorders, including gender disparities in OSA diagnosis, associations between sleep and neurodegeneration, limitations of consumer sleep technology, and sleep‑related predictors of mental health outcomes.

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