AHL 098 - Sleep Staging and Scoring Guidelines

4 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student to learn about sleep staging and scoring guidelines set by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). Topics to be covered include an overview and explanation of sleep staging; scoring of respiratory events; and scoring of leg movements, arousals and snoring events.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the students should be able to:
1. differentiate between each of the sleep stages;
2. identify landmarks of each sleep stage in the EEG;
3. outline the significance of staging each of the following types of studies NPSG, PAP, MWT, MST;
4. differentiate wake in the EEG as compared to other sleep stages (AKA: recognizing Sleep Onset);
5. employ the AASM rules for staging and scoring (See AASM scoring guidelines);
6. recognize and differentiate between the types of sleep disorders breathing;
7.identify PLM’s and arousals in a sleep study;
8. explain two pass method of scoring and putting together staging and scoring;
9. explain how to complete scoring a record on your own;
10. review writing reports when staging and scoring is complete; and
11. determine the archiving method for each individual lab.