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American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)
Continuing Respiratory Care Education Credits (CRCE) available.
This course covers the skills and knowledge needed to obtain high quality sleep recordings and expands upon the topics covered in Introductory to Polysomnography.
The course covers:
- The micro-architecture of each of the sleep stages, placement of limb electrodes, amplifier settings and sensitivities, machine and patient calibration procedures, scoring rules for staging sleep, as well as arousals and limb movements.
- The indications, advantages, disadvantages, and limitations of Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) therapy in polysomnography, including instrumentation, methodology, and sample protocols/guidelines.
- The classifications, mechanisms of actions, indications, contraindications, and side effects of medications commonly used to treat sleep disorders.
- The indications for conducting a Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT) and Multiple Wakefulness Test (MWT) according to AASM guidelines, including set-up, preparation, montage selection, specific procedures, scoring criteria, and documentation.
- The common artifacts and errors seen on a polysomnogram, including techniques for troubleshooting and correcting errors and artifacts commonly seen during acquisition of a polysomnogram.
- Definitions and example tracings of respiratory-related events commonly seen on a polysomnogram, including of apneas, hypopneas, Respiratory Event Related Arousals (RERA’s), primary snoring, and Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS).
- Cardiac-related events commonly seen on a polysomnogram, including example tracings of abnormal waveforms and waveform characteristics associated with each event.
- Hands-on practice fitting/applying masks and set-up/operation of PAP equipment.
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