Hey guys I was able to get my study results and not sure what to think about these. I was surprised by the amount of sleep I got. To be honest I don't buy that I was asleep all that time since I know how many times I was awaken....and how trashed I felt after the study
The result says that I should have yet another study done with the mask (titration)??? Please let me know what do you think. I do pay for all of this from my pocket so it is important for me to make right decision.
SLEEP ARCHITECTURE & STAGING: Testing began at 10:28:28 PM and ended at 5:41:52 AM, for a total recording time (TRT) of 433.4 minutes. The sleep period lasted 431.0 minutes and the total sleep time (TST) was 412.5 minutes, which resulted in a sleep efficiency (TST÷TRT) of 95.2%. The sleep latency (SL) was 2.4 minutes, and the latency to the first occurrence of Stage R was 155.5 minutes. There were 3 Stage R periods observed on this study night, 13 awakenings (i.e. transitions to Stage W from any sleep stage), and 68 total stage transitions. Wake after sleep onset (WASO) time accounted for 18.5 minutes, while the time spent is each sleep stage was 97.5 minutes (Stage N1); 211.0 minutes (Stage N2); 51.0 minutes (Stage N3); and 53.0 minutes (Stage R). The percentage of Total Sleep Time in each stage was: 23.6% (Stage N1); 51.1% (Stage N2); 12.4% (Stage N3); and 12.8% (Stage R).
RESPIRATORY: The patient experienced 7 apneas in total. Of these, 0 were identified as obstructive apneas, 0 were mixed apneas, and 7 were central apneas. This resulted in an apnea index (AI) of 1.0 apneas/hour of sleep. The patient experienced 86 hypopneas in total, which resulted in a hypopnea index (HI) of 12.5 hypopneas/hr. The overall apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) was 13.5 events/hr, while the AHI during Stage R sleep was 15.8/hr. AHI results by body-position showed: supine AHI = 20.8/hr; right-side AHI = 14.8/hr; left-side AHI = 5.1/hr; and prone AHI = N/A/hr.
For other respiratory disturbances, there were 0 occurrences of Cheyne Stokes breathing, and 0 respiratory effort-related arousals (RERAs). The RERA index was 0.0 events/hr, and the total respiratory disturbance index (RDI) was 13.5 events/hr.
OXIMETRY: Analysis of continuous oxygen saturations showed a mean SpO2 value of 94.9% throughout the study, with a minimum oxygen saturation during sleep of 85.0% and a mean value of 94.9% for the same period. Oxygen saturations were below ≤ 88% for 0.5 minutes of the time spent asleep.
AROUSAL: The patient experienced 156 arousals in total, for an arousal index of 22.7 arousals/hour. Of these, 34 were identified as respiratory-related arousals (4.9/hr), 41 were PLM-related arousals (6.0/hr), and 81 were spontaneous (11.8/hr) --- the result of no identifying cause
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