What every clinician should know about polysomnography

Respiratory Care

Volumn 55, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1179-1195

  Patil, Susheel P ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AASM scoring manual; Aliasing; Amplifiers; Arousals; Filters; Movement disorders; Obstructive sleep apnea; Polysomnography; Sampling rate; Sleep staging

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FILTER; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PATIENT SAFETY; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP STAGE; DEVICES; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SLEEP DISORDERS;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 77957918687     PISSN: 00201324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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