Sandra Marques
How to engage in a multidisciplinary team: the role of the dentist
- Internal Medicine Specialist
- Sleep Expert by the European Sleep Research Society
- PhD Fellow in Psychology: Emotions and Wellbeing
Nationality: Portugal
Scientific areas: On Our Agenda (multidisciplinary team)
17 of november, from 09h00 until 10h30
Room 2
Conference summary
Sleep disorders represent, due to their complexity and multicity, an area of great challenges for health professionals who diagnose, treat, and follow these patients.
Sleep disorders are associated with the development and/or worsening of various diseases, and the medical/psychiatric pathologies themselves also contribute to poor sleep.
Similarly, a patient with a sleep-related symptom may have one, two or more concomitant sleep disorders contributing to the same complaint, and this patient will need appropriate diagnostic and treatment.
So, the approach of patients with sleep disorders requires a multidisciplinary team with a common language: Sleep in a holistic view and approach.