Treatment of sleep disorders

A hypnotic (from Greek Hypnos, sleep), also known as a somnifacient or soporific, and commonly known as sleeping pills, are a class of psychoactive drugs whose primary function is to induce sleep and to treat insomnia (sleeplessness). Some hypnotics are also used to treat narcolepsy and hypersomnia by improving sleep at night and thereby reducing daytime sleepiness. Certain hypnotics can be used to treat non-restorative sleep and associated symptoms in conditions like fibromyalgia as well.

form of ventilator which applies mild air pressure continuously to keep airways open

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device used to treat sleep apnea

mechanical ventilation in which pressure is maintained to increase the volume of gas remaining in the lungs at the end of expiration

American criminal trial of Michael Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray

technique for treating insomnia without (or alongside) medications