Introduction to Polysomnography Scoring

American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)
Continuing Respiratory Care Education Credits (CRCE) available.

This course is an intensive, hands-on workshop designed to promote a better understanding of sleep recording methodology. It covers all the aspects of sleep staging, scoring, and event recognition using several types of sleep recording and scoring programs.

This course covers:

• The criteria of human sleep staging according to American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) standards for marking arousals and limb movements.
• Sleep/wake analysis results of respiratory, limb movements, and cardiac events.
• Sleep/wake analysis results of a Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) titration study.
• Protocols and techniques for evaluating optimal and therapeutic PAP levels on sample sleep studies.
• The criteria used for scoring Multiple Sleep Latency Tests (MSLT) and Mean Wakefulness Tests (MWT) as per AASM guidelines.
• Calculations commonly utilized to evaluate sleep/wake data for sleep studies, MSLTs and MWTs.
• Explanations of the equations and abbreviations used, including examples in the format required to study for the Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) exam.
• The procedures for generating a sleep report using information gathered during the data acquisition phase of the sleep study.
• The components of the sleep report and the different types of sleep reports that can be generated, such as diagnostic, therapeutic, split night studies, and MSLTs.
• Supervised practice of sleep staging and calculations utilizing sample studies.
• Evaluating MSLT/MWT studies and performing calculations using clinical examples provided.