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Sleep study figures - Please look

Posted by dars on July 22, 2008 at 15:01:10:

Here's the numbers from my most recent sleep study. Doctor indicated only 1 of the episodes was believed to be obstructive, mostly centrals. I'd welcome any further comments/insight:
PARAMETERS: L&R EOG, submental EMG, L&R anterior tibialis EMG, central and occipital EEG, continuous monitoring of EKG, Nasal/oral airflow, thoracic and abdominal respiratory efforts, and continuous pulse oximetry.
Comments: Mild snoring, supine - 137m, right side - 170m, other positions - 0m
ARCHITECTURE: Total bed time - 425 minutes, total sleep time was 307 minutes, waking time was 117.5 minutes. Sleep efficiency was 72.4%. Sleep onset was 12 minutes with a REM onset of 196 minutes. While asleep, 16.1% of time in stage 1, 60.8% in stage 2 sleep, 11.9% in stage 3-4 sleep, and 11.2% of time in REM sleep.
Patient had 89 Arousals. 34 associated with respiratory events, 5 associated with PLMS and 39 were spontaneous arousals. Overall arousal index was 17.4.
RESPIRATORY SUMMARY: Baseline O2 saturation was 97% and lowest saturation observed was 87%. 73 Respiratory events with an AHI of 14.2. Maximum event duration was 20 seconds.
Average EKG was 58.5, no arrythmias, Periodic limb movements observed wtih total of 2.3 per hour while asleep.
IMPRESSION: 1. Mild mainly central sleep apnea 2. Mild period limb movements of sleep. 3. Fragmented sleep

My comments - Limb movements are probably the twitches my legs do when I wake from an event (beleived to be cymbalta caused by my sleep doc). Fragmented sleep - technician came in several times to adjust my sensors, it was garbage dumpster emptying night in the medical park at 3 am, and for the 2nd time in 2 years my work just happened to call my cell and leave message of an issue at 4 am. Stayed awake quite a while after this before falling back.

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