AHL 103 - Clinical Internship - Day/Scoring

This course is designed to enable the student to apply skills learned in the polysomnographic course of study. Topics to be covered include day studies multiple Sleep Latency Test / Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MSLT / MWT), staging/scoring studies, Home Sleep Testing (HST), archiving, and report running.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1 perform day studies hookup utilizing the 10-20 system (MSLT / MWT),
2. demonstrate proper instrumentation of the electrical equipment,
3. demonstrate proper technical documentation,
4. demonstrate and recognize different sleep stages,
5. distinguish between the different recording parameters for MSLT / MWT,
6. demonstrate running reports of scored studies,
7. demonstrate achieving of studies, and
8. explain the difference between the day studies utilized.