This course is designed to enable the student to learn to perform a variety of sleep diagnostic studies. Topics to be covered include: sleep apnea monitoring, multiple sleep latency tests, overnight seizure monitoring, familiarity with computerized recording equipment, treatment modalities such as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), and bi-level positive airway pressure (BPAP). Students will be introduced on how to complete a hookup on other students for different studies (PSG, CPAP, MSLT, MWT, AVAP, ASV). Students will be introduced to sleep staging and scoring of respiratory events, leg movements, arousals, snoring and generating sleep reports.
