PM devices measure fewer parameters than a laboratory based sleep study and are therefore not recommended for assessment of sleep disorder in the pediatric population. Unattended home PSG in children was evaluated by 1 center (Jacob, 1995) and produced similar results to laboratory studies; however,...
Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) is a facility based study that is used to measure the ability to stay awake and alert. The procedure protocol is similar to that of the MSLT, with the exception that an individual is given four nap trials, each trial consisting of a forty minute sessio...
Unattended (home) sleep studies usinganyof the following diagnostic techniques (seeAppendixfor definition of device types) are considered medically necessary for members with symptoms suggestive of OSA (seeAppendix) when the home sleep study is used as part of a comprehensive sleep evaluation: Sleep ...
In this study, whose protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of The University of Connecticut, ten healthy (without sleep disorders) volunteers (7 male) between the ages of 25–35 were involved. The participants had to perform the tasks described in Section 2.2 every two hours ...