Content text 22Mar_Workshop_OSA diagnosis_full PSG.pdf
POLYSOMNOGRAPHY: the sleep data Measurement 2010 to now HA Lab Sleep Medicine/ focus for SDB
LEARNING OBJECTIVES PSG/ polysomnography and the techniques employed in standard set-up in standard sleep lab Describe respiratory monitoring technology in PSG (SOME OVERLAP with level 3 tests) Various technique, settings, filters, bio-calibration in level 1/2 Limitations of other systems that are also used for capturing sleep, respiratory and other events
Polysomnography First introduced by Holland & others in 1974 Recording, analysis and interpretation of multiple, simultaneous, physiologic parameters Essential in the diagnosis of many sleep disorders Very soon, this was noted to be essential to the understanding of normal and abnormal sleep, SDB ...