[PDF] Top 20 Objective Sleepiness Measures in Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea

... to sleepiness as an isolated independent vari- able, it did not provide any additional predictive value to changes in mean sleep ...of obstructive hypoventilation was not ...mean sleep ... See full document

... reported sleep time and ...tive measures of EDS, such as polysomnography with mean sleep latency testing, would be able to further quantify daytime sleepiness in this patient ...improved ... See full document

... A weakness of our findings is that despite ran- domization at study outset, the PSG ⫺ nonsurgery group had a significantly lower initial total clinical assessment score than the PSG ⫺ T&A group. The difference ... See full document

... Louisville Pediatric Sleep Medicine Center because of habitual snoring and suspected OSA were recruited into the ...affect sleep, were known to have narcolepsy or idiopathic hypersomnia, or had any ... See full document

... 23]. Sleepiness, on the other hand, is more often used to describe a subjective experience or feeling of difficulty remaining awake, or through objective measurement demonstrating increased sleep ... See full document

... Sleep apnea is a condition distinguished by pauses in breathing or instances of shallow or infrequent breathing during sleep, resulting in sleep fragmentation and day- time sleepiness ... See full document

... was no distinct pattern when looking at all three measures D xy , slope and B. Discrimination (D xy ) and calibration was best in patient group A, while overall accuracy B was best in patient group D. The ... See full document

... characterize sleep disorders and rigorously trained research staff administering the ...and sleep disorders. We also cannot determine whether sleep disturbances may be attributed to pregnancy related ... See full document

... daytime sleepiness (EDS) determined by daytime performance and cognition does not ...subjective sleepiness in mild to moder- ate OSAS, and the effects on objective sleepiness are of limited ... See full document

... in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) ...the pediatric literature [23], indicated that multiple cepahlometric measures of children diagnosed with MMD are statistically different between ... See full document

... PSG measures sleep stage and respiratory functions using recordings of electroencephalogram, electrooculogram, electromyogram, electrocardiogram, pulse, oronasal airflow, transcutaneous oxygen saturation ... See full document

... in pediatric patients undergoing AT for OSAS were a large, diverse sample recruited from multiple pediatric centers and use of a randomized design with a control group and highly rigorous and standardized ... See full document

... The patient has a primary generalized epilepsy with an overlap syndrome between phantom absences and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy (JME). Treatment with levetiracetam did not control her myoclonic jerks or staring spells, ... See full document

... The Sleep Apnea Clinical Score (SACS) and the Berlin Questionnaire (BQ) are used to predict the likelihood of obstructive sleep apnea ...Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) is used to ... See full document

... very limited data, it seems likely that most CompSAS patients will improve completely with long-term use of CPAP. This variability in CPAP response is probably due to heterogene- ity in the CompSAS group or to variable ... See full document

... daytime sleepiness; excessive snoring during sleep; ambulatory blood pressure monitoring – confi rmed nocturnal nondipper; and cerebrovascular ...chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; and diffi ... See full document

... tant sleep problems cannot be attributed to lack of any discussion about sleep: the large majority of children had notes about their sleep somewhere in their ...during sleep” suggest that ... See full document

... The results of this study indicate that primary snoring in children is associated with significant al- terations in respiratory arousal and REM% relative to nonsnoring control subjects. Furthermore, even in a community ... See full document

... With the recent history, attention must be paid to the clinical conditions of the infant during the 24 h prior to the episode (presence of fever, vomiting, diar- rhoea or feeding difficulties), to any immunizations ... See full document

... Like PSG, most of the existing diagnostic techniques of OSA are invasive, time consuming, costly and causing immense discomfort for the patient. To avoid all these inconveniences, we propose a new non-invasive and cost ... See full document