RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 How to interpret polysomnography
JF Archives of disease in childhood - Education & practice edition
JO Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
SP 130
OP 135
DO 10.1136/archdischild-2018-316031
VO 105
IS 3
A1 Kai Wen Leong
A1 Amanda Griffiths
A1 Anne-Marie Adams
A1 John Massie
YR 2020
UL http://ep.bmj.com/content/105/3/130.abstract
AB A 5-year-old child presents to a paediatric clinic with their parents because of concerns about snoring, which is loud, every night and associated with respiratory pauses. This has been present for 6 months. Can clinical evaluation diagnose sleep-disordered breathing in children or are further investigations required? Should further investigations include oximetry or polysomnography? If a polysomnogram is performed, how are the results interpreted? In this paper we describe the indications for polysomnography, outline the parameters measured and decode a clinical polysomnography report.