Sleep
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Scoring of arousals in children is based on an extension of adult criteria, as defined by the American Sleep Disorders Association (ASDA). By this, a minimum duration of 3 seconds is required. A few recent studies utilized modified criteria for the study of children, with durations as short as 1 second. However, the validity and reliability of scoring these shorter arousals have never been verified. Based on studies in adults, we hypothesized that interscorer agreement for scoring arousals shorter than 3 seconds was poor. ⋯ We conclude that there is much poorer interscorer agreement for scoring arousals shorter than 3 seconds, when compared to the standard ASDA criteria. We propose that scoring of arousals in children should follow the standard ASDA criteria.
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To assess performance, alertness, and mood during the night shift and subsequent daytime sleep in relation to the degree of re-alignment (re-entrainment) of circadian rhythms with a night-work, day-sleep schedule. ⋯ In young people, complete re-entrainment to the night-shift day-sleep schedule is not necessary to produce substantial benefits in neurobehavioral measures; partial re-entrainment (delaying the temperature minimum into the beginning of daytime sleep) is sufficient. The group that did not re-entrain shows that a reasonable amount of daytime sleep is not enough to produce good neurobehavioral performance during the night shift. Therefore, some re-alignment of circadian rhythms is recommended.
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We observed that some children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy and obstructive sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) make high-frequency inspiratory sounds (HFIS) during sleep. Our objective was to determine whether HFIS occur in most children with obstructive SDB and adenotonsillar hypertrophy and whether adenotonsillectomy reduces HFIS. ⋯ HFIS may be a marker of disturbed breathing during sleep in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Comparison of limited monitoring using a nasal-cannula flow signal to full polysomnography in sleep-disordered breathing.
Evaluate the utility of overnight monitoring limited to nasal cannula airflow and oximetry in the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS). ⋯ In subjects with OSAHS, analysis of the flow signal from a nasal cannula can provide an RDI similar to that obtained in a full NPSG.