Liam C K
Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur.
Med J Malaysia. 1996 Mar;51(1):82-8.
The gold standard for the diagnosis and evaluation of sleep apnoea is overnight polysomnography. However, full polysomnography is an expensive and labour intensive procedure which requires the patient to sleep overnight in a hospital sleep laboratory. This paper describes the use of a commercial ambulatory microprocessor based system (Edentrace II) for the evaluation of fifteen patients aged 24 to 68 years with clinical features suggestive of sleep apnoea syndrome. With this portable recording system, sleep studies can be carried out unattended in a hospital ward and computer-assisted scoring of respiratory events can be performed.
睡眠呼吸暂停诊断和评估的金标准是夜间多导睡眠图。然而，全面的多导睡眠图是一种昂贵且耗费人力的检查方法，它要求患者在医院睡眠实验室过夜。本文描述了使用一种基于微处理器的商用动态监测系统（Edentrace II）对15名年龄在24至68岁、具有睡眠呼吸暂停综合征临床特征的患者进行评估。通过这种便携式记录系统，可以在医院病房无人值守的情况下进行睡眠研究，并对呼吸事件进行计算机辅助评分。
