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Polysomnography

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:

What is polysomnography?

Polysomnography (PSG) is a sleep evaluation to learn if you have a sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD), such as obstructive sleep apnea.

Why do I want PSG?

• You wake up usually throughout the nighttime.
• You sleepwalk, have night terrors, or possess seizures on your sleep.
• Your physician believes you can have a leg movement sleep disorder.
• You`ve got symptoms of narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a sleep disorder that causes acute sleepiness and frequent daytime sleep attacks.
• You`ve got issues with the nerves which control muscle movement as you are sleeping.
• You`ve got violent or other harmful sleep-related behaviour.

What are the signs and symptoms of a SRBD?

Your signs and symptoms might just be detected as you are sleeping by someone else who is in the room. The most common signs and symptoms are:

• Choking or gasping for air as you sleep
• Daytime sleepiness
• Restlessness as you sleep
• Snoring
• Sweating on your sleep
• Waking using an extremely dry mouth or soreness
• Interruptions on your breathing when you are asleep

The way to a PSG evaluation done?

• PSG testing is typically done in a sleep centre room that resembles a bedroom. Healthcare providers will put electrodes on you. These are tacky pads. They list snoring, pulse and oxygen levels, and body motions when you are asleep. PSG testing might be done at your property. Healthcare providers will say the way to do a home PSG evaluation. You might need to visit a sleep centre before your property evaluation to get electrodes Puton. You will be supplied a monitor to take home with this specific test.
• Your PSG could be done as one night or divide night evaluation. Throughout the night, for a night evaluation, healthcare providers will monitor your sleep time. In the event that you stop breathing at times during the first few hours of the evaluation split up night testing is done. If it occurs, your physician will have you use a breathing machine with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) to the remainder of one`s test. The CPAP machine blows a flow of air into a mask . The split up night evaluation with CPAP might help whether that treatment will help your SRBD your insurer know.

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