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What is the aftercare of a polysomnography test?
Once the test is over, the monitors are detached from the patient. No special measures need to be taken after polysomnography.
What is polysomnography?
Polysomnography-- A technique for diagnosing sleep disorders with the use of a machine that records the pulse, breathing rate and other variables while the patient sleeps.
Are there any precautions associated with polysomnography?
Polysomnography is extremely safe and no special precautions need to be taken.
What is a polysomnography?
Polysomnography-- A group of tests administered to analyze heart, blood, and breathing patterns during sleep.
How would you describe the polysomnography procedure?
An overnight stay in a sleep laboratory; while the patient sleeps they are observed and monitored by electroencephalography, electro-oculography, thermistors, pulse oximetry, electrocardiogram.
What measures physiological activity during sleep?
Polysomnography
A sleep apnea study is also known as?
polysomnography
Measures physiological activity during sleep?
Polysomnography
What does a polysomnography test monitor?
The patient's airflow through the nose and mouth, blood pressure, heart activity, blood oxygen level, brain wave pattern, eye movement, and the movement of respiratory muscle and limbs.
How is snoring diagnosed?
A patient interview,and possibly an interview with.who has witnessed the snoring, is usually enough for a diagnosis of snoring. a physical exam will be performed to determine the cause. may be examined by sleep endoscopy. a polysomnography study.
How is a patient positioned for a colpotomy?
The patient is placed in a supine position on the operating table with her legs in stirrups and the incision site is prepared.
What is the scientific study of sleep called?
The study of sleep is called polysomnography.
