STANDARD OPERATING PROTOCOL

SLEEP LABORATORY

1. SLEEP STUDY IS PERFORMED ONLY BY APPOINTMENT.

2. THE OUTDOOR PATIENTS COME AT 8:00 P.M. THEN FILE IS MADE AND DURING NIGHT

SPLIT NIGHT SLEEP STUDY IS PERFORMED FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNOEA.

3. APPOINTMENT IS GIVEN AFTER EVALUATION OF THE VARIOUS RECORDS.

4. AT YASHODA WE ARE JPERFORMING ONLY SLEEP STUDIES FOR OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP

APNOEA WHICH IS THE MOST COMMON SLEEP DISORDER AND WE ARE NOT

PERFORMING THE SLEEP STAGES.

5. AT YASHODA HOSPITAL WE DO SLEEP STUDY UP TILL NIGHT, THE INITIAL PART OF SLEEP

FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSE AND LATER PART IF SLEEP FOR TITRATION PURPOSE DURING

WHICH THE AUTOSET IS CONNECTED WITH PATIENT AND SIMULTANEOUS RECORDING

IS DONE AND THE REPORT IS GIVEN TO PATIENT ON NEXT DAY.

6. WE CAN PERFORM SLEEP STUDY FOR DIAGNOSTIC PURPOSE IF REQUESTED BY

CLINICIAN E.G. FOR NOCTURNAL OXYMETRY, BREATHING PATTERN ETC.

7. PARAMETERS PERFORMED ARE:

A.) EFFORT

B.)NASAL FLOW

C.) SNORING DETECTION

8. TECHNICIAN STAYS WITH THE PATIENT DURING NIGHT AND KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH

CONSULTANT INCHARGE.

9. PATIENT HAS TO TAKE HIS / HER USUAL MEDICATION PRIOR GOING TO SLEEP.

10. PATIENT CONSULTS THE CONSULTANT IN CHARGE IN THE OPD AFTER COLLECTION OF

REPORTS AND APPROPRIATE ADVICE IS GIVEN.

11. MACHINE USED: APNOEA LINK PLUS.

12. THE CONSENT IS TAKEN FROM THE PATIENT BEFORE THE DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE.

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