CRS 421 - Essentials of Sleep

1. Summarize characteristics of normal sleep and sleep disorders.
2. Discriminate between varying sleep stages and abnormal events by submitting patient sleep documentation with stages/events identified and scored.
3. Summarize patient processing from screening through billing, equipment ordering and follow-up.
4. Submit video documentation of proficiency in laboratory skills, including patient education and debriefing, patient electrode hookup, verbal description of selected montage and mask-fitting.
5. Summarize utility of various channels including location of electrode and corresponding pathologies commonly identified from channel interpretations.
6. Summarize list of potential artifacts; assess potential impact of improper identification.
7. Summarize various treatment modalities (CPAP, BiPAP) and commonly seen EKG changes.