tci Part B Insider - 2014 Issue 11

Terminology Check: Here's How Sleep Studies and Polysomnography Relate to Each Other

Hint: Eliminating one points you to the other. Sleep studies are tests that watch what happens to a patient’s body during sleep, and try to find out what causes sleep problems. Sleep studies usually are done in a hospital’s sleep lab or with portable equipment the patient uses at home. The most common type of sleep study is polysomnography. A basic electroencephalography (EEG) can be done in an awake or asleep state, and monitors brainwaves. Physicians can use the test to monitor the different characteristic patterns in an awake or asleep state as well as any activity...

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