Posted by REM Inhibitor on June 23, 2005 at 20:24:50:

In Reply to: OSA, UARS, and passive agressiveness posted by REM Inhibitor on June 18, 2005 at 01:38:00:

Well it would be nice if we had a pressure transducer, but we don't. I do agree that if a patient's sleepiness is better accounted for by a diagnosis of UARS or OSAS, then the MSLT is mostly a waste of time and money. But my thought was that OSAS and UARS are two seperate (though closely related) issues. As far as calling hypopneas go (being that we only have thermistors at my lab), I was under the impression that there needed to be a 20-50% drop in airflow w/ either an arousal or a 4% desat. That's how I've called them for a year and a half now, and I've never heard the docs complain (I assume they look at the studies themselves) nor have I heard my TD complain before this incident. I guess it just shook me up a bit because it kind of made me feel like my scoring was utterly worthless.

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• Re: OSA, UARS, and passive agressiveness RPSGT 21:14 6/23/05 (2)
  • Re: OSA, UARS, and passive agressiveness REM Inhibitor 22:18 6/23/05 (1)
    • Re: OSA, UARS, and passive agressiveness RPSGT 22:47 6/23/05 (0)

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