Home Assessment of Sleep Disorders by Portable Monitoring

Autor: Roger Broughton, John Fleetham, Jonathan Fleming
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology. 13:272-284
ISSN: 0736-0258
DOI: 10.1097/00004691-199607000-00002
Popis: Ambulatory home monitoring has been employed for a number of applications. Portable sleep/wake recorders are useful for assessment of the hypersomnias, circadian sleep/wake disorders, parasomnias, and periodic movements in sleep. Wrist actigraphy can usefully approximate sleep versus wake state during 24 h and has been used for monitoring insomnia, circadian sleep/wake disturbances, and periodic limb movement disorder. Home monitoring of cardiopulmonary parameters can be employed for detection and follow-up of sleep-disordered breathing (sleep apnea, upper airway resistance syndrome). The techniques available for portable monitoring, although valuable, do not replace traditional in-laboratory polysomnography for full assessment of a sleep disorder.
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