Synopsis of Subject: The content will introduce the student to the New Patient Encounter, Polysomnographic equipment as well as EEG waveforms and the rules for scoring sleep stages from a sleep study. During the new patient encounter, a review of the overall process, the patient chart review, patient arrival, accommodations and challenges that may arise during a typical shift as a sleep technologist. It will also cover basic instrumentation, amplification, polarity and amplitude as well as the use of filters and sensitivities. It will expand on the 10-20 electrode placement system, which acts like a grid map over the brain for electrode placement, and the use of bipolar/referential derivations used in recording montages during the study. The subject will also introduce the student to normal sleep in infants, pediatrics and adults as well as the various stages of sleep and their qualifying characteristics for scoring.
Student Will Learn to Do: How to measure the head using the 10-20 electrode placement system and how to start recognizing the earmark differences between sleep stages.
