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Tests could include:
The health care provider will perform a complete history and physical exam. This will involve carefully checking your mouth, neck, and throat. You may be given a survey that asks a series of questions about daytime sleepiness, sleep quality, and b...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 21, 2009
Excessive daytime sleepiness is the complaint that usually brings a person to see the doctor. A careful medical history will include questions about alcohol or tranquilizer use, snoring (often reported by the person's partner), and morning headach...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Although sleep apnea has been more widely diagnosed in the past decade, experts estimate that at least 90–95% of cases remain undiagnosed. Reasons for this include vague, slowly developing symptoms that largely occur when the patient is sleeping; ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Excessive daytime sleepiness is the complaint that usually brings a person to see the doctor. A careful medical history will include questions about alcohol, tobacco, or tranquilizer use; family history; snoring (often reported by the person's par...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
The pulse oximeter is a photoelectric instrument for measuring oxygen saturation of the blood . A pulse oximeter uses infrared light and a photo sensor to detect the amount of oxygen in a patient's blood. (Illustration by Argosy . Courtesy of Gale...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
The pulse oximeter is a photoelectric instrument for measuring oxygen saturation of blood.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery
During a physical examination, a health care provider studies a patient's body to determine the presence or absence of physical problems. A typical physical examination includes: Inspection (looking at the body; Palpation (feeling the body with ha...
Source:ADAM
Date:February 23, 2009
The health status of populations and of individuals is assessed for many reasons. Assessing needs for care helps guide the allocation of resources— diagnostic assessments guide treatment, prognostic assessments contribute to planning, and assessin...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Public Health
Polysomnography is a sleep study. A sleep study monitors you as you sleep, or try to sleep. There are two states of sleep: Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep; Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. REM sleep is associated with dreaming. Your body muscle...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 28, 2009
The word polysomnography, derived from the Greek roots "poly," meaning many, "somno," meaning sleep, and "graphy" meaning to write, refers to multiple tests performed on patients while they sleep. Polysomnography is an overnight test to evaluate s...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Polysomnography is a series of tests performed on patients while they sleep. Polysomnography is a comprehensive overnight procedure that evaluates sleep disorders . It generally includes monitoring of the patient's airflow through the nose and mou...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
Polysomnography is a set of tests performed while a patient sleeps. It is done to diagnose and evaluate sleep disorders , and examines at a minimum brain wave patterns, the movements of both eyes, and the tone of at least one skeletal muscle.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
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