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PDFCommunity child health, public health, and epidemiology
Who should have a sleep study for sleep related breathing disorders?
Abstract
By the time children are 5 years old more of their life will have been spent asleep than awake. Sleep medicine is therefore especially relevant in paediatrics. However, one recent survey showed that paediatricians’ knowledge of sleep medicine is poor and that few paediatricians enquire about sleep as part of their general consultation.1
- CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome
- OSAS, obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome
- PSG, polysomnography
- REM, rapid eye movement
- UARS, upper airway resistance syndrome
- monitoring
- physiological
- polysomnography
- sleep
- sleep apnoea syndrome
- obstructive