[Diagnosis of sleep apnea: required equipment for staged diagnosis].
In view of the high prevalence of sleep apnoea (SA) a stepped concept for diagnosis and therapy is needed. Such a concept requires appropriate instrumentation. The apparative requirement for a five-stage concept, and the experience gained with it, are presented, in particular these newly introduced stages: screening instrument, based on an analysis of heart rate and breathing sounds, and a mobile sleep laboratory based on oxygen saturation measurement combined with inductive plethysmography and four further parameters. Experience obtained with such a stepped concept demonstrates its efficiency and necessity in the diagnosis of sleep-related breathing disturbances.
Penzel
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Amend
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Faust
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Peter
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Meinzer
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Schneider
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Weber
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D015716:Electrocardiography, Ambulatory / Q000295:instrumentation; D006801:Humans; D008838:Microcomputers; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests / Q000295:instrumentation; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted; D012891:Sleep Apnea Syndromes / Q000175:diagnosis*
Diagnostik der Schlafapnoe: Apparative Voraussetzungen zur Stufendiagnostik.