Sleep Diagnosis and Therapy

Official Publication of the American Sleep and Breathing Academy

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Dig Deeper, or It Is About Time We Standardlize our Tools – Noam Hadas

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I have been active in sleep for the past 15 years, and I am excited to see the explosive growth in activity and the recognition that sleep medicine has achieved over this period. Indeed, there are very few examples in medicine that showed such a move from a curiosity item hailed by some researchers, into a well-accepted and active medical specialty. Still, in at least one … [Read more...] about Dig Deeper, or It Is About Time We Standardlize our Tools – Noam Hadas

Comparison of Two Limited-Channel Systems for the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea in the Home – Philip R. Westbrook, Michael J. Dickel, Dennis Nicholson, Daniel J. Levendowski, Timothy Zavora, Vladimir Simeunovic and Roy Dalati

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Philip R. Westbrook, MD, Michael J. Dickel, PhD, Dennis Nicholson, MD, Daniel J. Levendowski, MBA, Timothy Zavora, BS, Vladimir Simeunovic, BS and Roy Dalati, BS Abstract Objective: To compare two commercially available limited channel systems utilizing in-home self-applied recorders to each other and to standard in-laboratory attended nocturnal polysomnography (PSG) for … [Read more...] about Comparison of Two Limited-Channel Systems for the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea in the Home – Philip R. Westbrook, Michael J. Dickel, Dennis Nicholson, Daniel J. Levendowski, Timothy Zavora, Vladimir Simeunovic and Roy Dalati