American Academy of Sleep Medicine Position Paper for the Use of a Home Sleep Apnea Test for the Diagnosis of OSA in Children (JCSM 2017)
Introduction: Dr. Neomi Shah (Director, Web Committee, ATS SRN Assembly, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
Host: Dr. Sumit Bhargava (Chair, Pediatric Sleep Interest Group, ATS SRN Assembly, Stanford University)
Guest Speaker: Dr. Lynn D’Andrea (Co-author and Chief, Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin)
Description: In this podcast Dr. Sumit Bhargava interviews co-author Dr. Lynn D’Andrea on the use of a home sleep apnea test for the diagnosis of sleep apnea in children.
They address the following key questions:
- Is there a need for home sleep apnea testing (HST) in pediatrics?
- Which of the currently available HST devices have been studied in pediatric research settings?
- What are the most important differences in the scoring of adult and pediatric sleep studies and why does that make home sleep apnea testing difficult to implement in children?
- D’Andrea discusses how the committee conducted a careful review of the literature before publishing this position paper.
