END 1425 - Lab for Intermediate Polysomnography

0 Cr. Hr(s).
The course is designed to assist the Polysomnography Certificate Program in meeting the minimum expectation “to prepare competent entry-level polysomnographic technologists in the cognitive (knowledge), psychomotor (skills), and affective (behavior) learning domains.” Lab includes demonstration of pattern recognition of sleep disorders, physiological effects of sleep disorders and ramifications/implications on patient health, Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) set-up, nocturnal O2, CO2 monitoring. Recognizing medication effects on sleep stages/patterns. Determining various therapies for sleep disordered breathing, and other sleep disorders, nocturnal seizures, and seizure types.
Prerequisite(s): END 2550
Corequisite(s): END 1421