Standard procedures for adults in accredited sleep medicine centres in Europe

Fischer, J.; Đogaš, Zoran; Bassetti, Claudio L.; Berg, Sören; Grote, Ludger; Jennum, Poul; Lévy, Patrick; Mihăicuţă, Ştefan; Nobili, Lino; Riemann, Dieter; Puertas, Francisco J.; Raschke, F.; Skene, Debra J.; Stanley, Neil; Pevernagie, Dirk

doi:10.1111/j.1365-2869.2011.00987.x

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“…Whole-night studies All subjects who participated in the ECRHS III were invited for a type 3 sleep study [28] using a T3 device (Nox Medical, Reykjavik, Iceland). Nasal airflow was recorded through a cannula.…”

Section: Assessment Of Vigilancementioning

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Obstructive sleep apnoea in the general population: highly prevalent but minimal symptoms

et al. 2015

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The aim was to assess the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) as defined by an apnoea-hypopnea index (AHI) ⩾15 in the middle-aged general population, and the interrelationship between OSA, sleep-related symptoms, sleepiness and vigilance.A general population sample of 40-65-year-old Icelanders was invited to participate in a study protocol that included a type 3 sleep study, questionnaire and a psychomotor vigilance test (PVT).Among the 415 subjects included in the study, 56.9% had no OSA (AHI <5), 24.1% had mild OSA (AHI 5-14.9), 12.5% had moderate OSA (AHI 15-29.9), 2.9% had severe OSA (AHI ⩾30) and 3.6% were already diagnosed and receiving OSA treatment. However, no significant relationship was found between AHI and subjective sleepiness or clinical symptoms. A relationship with objective vigilance assessed by PVT was only found for those with AHI ⩾30. Subjects already on OSA treatment and those accepting OSA treatment after participating in the study were more symptomatic and sleepier than others with similar OSA severity, as assessed by the AHI.In a middle-aged general population, approximately one in five subjects had moderate-to-severe OSA, but the majority of them were neither symptomatic nor sleepy and did not have impaired vigilance. @ERSpublications Overall, 15% of the general population had untreated OSA without symptoms, sleepiness or decreased vigilance http://ow.ly/StiqS

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Section: Assessment Of Vigilancementioning

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Obstructive sleep apnoea in the general population: highly prevalent but minimal symptoms

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“…In association with certification, coordinated and unified educational training initiatives also have to be taken, including publication of guidelines [as already published in the Journal of Sleep Research (Fischer et al, 2012;Pevernagie et al, 2006Pevernagie et al, , 2009] and textbooks in sleep medicine. In this respect, the ESRS believes that the future of sleep research and sleep medicine in Europe necessitates the creation and development of academic multi-disciplinary sleep centres across Europe .…”

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An open letter to the sleep and circadian rhythms community: Presidents’ viewpoints of the World Sleep Federation (WSF)

Grunstein

Kushida

2012

Journal of Sleep Research

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“…A thoroughly analysis of a NPSG study may last up to 3 hours [4]. Regarding NPSG, two major limitations arise, which contribute to collapse current facilities [5]: complexity of recording and analysis procedures and availability of specialized sleep units.…”

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Automated analysis of unattended portable oximetry by means of Bayesian neural networks to assist in the diagnosis of sleep apnea

Álvarez

Gutiérrez‐Tobal

Vaquerizo-Villar

et al. 2016

2016 Global Medical Engineering Physics Exchanges/Pan American Health Care Exchanges (GMEPE/PAHCE)

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--Sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) is a chronic sleep-related breathing disorder, which is currently considered a major health problem. In-lab nocturnal polysomnography (NPSG) is the gold standard diagnostic technique though it is complex and relatively unavailable. On the other hand, the analysis of blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) from nocturnal pulse oximetry (NPO) is a simple, noninvasive, highly available and effective alternative. This study focused on the design and assessment of a neural network (NN) aimed at detecting SAHS using information from at-home unsupervised portable SpO2 recordings. A Bayesian multilayer perceptron NN (MLP-NN) was proposed, fed with complementary oximetric features properly selected. A dataset composed of 320 unattended SpO2 recordings was analyzed (60% for training and 40% for validation). The proposed Bayesian MLP-NN achieved 94.2% sensitivity, 69.6% specificity, and 89.8% accuracy in the test set. Our results suggest that automated analysis of at-home portable NPO recordings by means of Bayesian MLP-NN could be an effective and highly available technique in the context of SAHS diagnosis.

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Standard procedures for adults in accredited sleep medicine centres in Europe

Cited by 80 publications

References 93 publications

Obstructive sleep apnoea in the general population: highly prevalent but minimal symptoms

Obstructive sleep apnoea in the general population: highly prevalent but minimal symptoms

An open letter to the sleep and circadian rhythms community: Presidents’ viewpoints of the World Sleep Federation (WSF)

Automated analysis of unattended portable oximetry by means of Bayesian neural networks to assist in the diagnosis of sleep apnea

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