Addition of frontal EEG to adult home sleep apnea testing: does a more accurate determination of sleep time make a difference?

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Home sleep apnea testing (HSAT) typically does not include electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring for sleep assessment. In patients with insomnia and low sleep efficiency, overestimation of the sleep period can result from absence of EEG, which will reduce sleep disordered breathing (SDB) indices and may lead to a false-negative result.

Objective

To validate a single channel frontal EEG for scoring sleep versus wake against full EEG during polysomnography, and then to examine the utility of adding this single channel EEG to standard HSAT to prevent false-negative results.

Methods

Epoch-by-epoch validation for sleep scoring of single channel EEG versus full PSG was first performed in 21 subjects. This was followed by a separate retrospective analysis of 207 co

SUBMITTER: Light MP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7477926 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature