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What is the primary purpose for performing an MSLT?
How does a physician assess excessive daytime sleepiness in an adolescent?
What is the primary purpose for performing an MSLT?
How does a physician assess excessive daytime sleepiness in an adolescent?
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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During set up of an 80 year old male, you notice a bluish color to his lips and fingernails. What device could be quickly used to assess the patient's oxygen saturation?
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Permalink Reply by Lauren Major on
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I wonder though, I had a blood test done that came back positive for Narcolepsy, but my MSLT came back negative. My naps were all <2 but no REMs.
I'd like to know how accurate that is. I was sure that I was dreaming, or at one time even felt as though I was talking myself into going to sleep the whole time, when in fact, I was sleeping. (<2).
99 said:1 MSLT test for narcalepsy or to rule it in or out
you should put numbers or letters on them
2 epworth scale
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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on
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Pulse oximeter
sleepycarol said:During set up of an 80 year old male, you notice a bluish color to his lips and fingernails. What device could be quickly used to assess the patient's oxygen saturation?
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I have never performed an MSLT as I work nights. I have studied them and of course i ask quite a few questions of the day techs. The blood test was a prescreen to see if you needed the MSLT. They were testing for antigens in your blood.
http://www.mayomedicallaboratories.com/test-catalog/print.php?unit_...
What is the <2 siginificant of? Minutes, naps, or sleep latency?
Lauren Major said:I wonder though, I had a blood test done that came back positive for Narcolepsy, but my MSLT came back negative. My naps were all <2 but no REMs.
I'd like to know how accurate that is. I was sure that I was dreaming, or at one time even felt as though I was talking myself into going to sleep the whole time, when in fact, I was sleeping. (<2).
99 said:1 MSLT test for narcalepsy or to rule it in or out
you should put numbers or letters on them
2 epworth scale
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Okay Rock what kind of antigens would show up in a blood test that would indicate narcolepsy? (not on the study guide, but my own question)
Can you explain narcolepsy a little more (again my own question). I do not have it but it has always puzzled me how anyone can just fall asleep at the drop of a hat. Is it something in the brain?
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They Are looking for a specific human leukocyte antigen (HLA).
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16043129\
I believe REM Behavior Disorder (RBD) to be the opposite of Narcolepsy. Patients with REM disorder from not having the benefit of sleep paralysis. This disorder allows its victims to act out their dreams while making havoc for themsleves, their bed partners, or their surroundings.
Narcolepsy in a nut shell is instant sleep paralysis, or stage REM at sleep onset. This can be triggered by causing an extreme emotional situation such as laughter or anger in patients with this disorder (Narcolepsy with cataplexy). Vivid dreams can aslo occur during these events. these dreams can include the current surroundings and have been tied to the current UFO phenomena (Narcolepsy with hypnagogic hallucinations). Some argue that narcolepsy without cataplexy or hypnogogic hallucinations is just excessive sleepiness.
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Permalink Reply by 99 on
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pulse oximeter for cyanosis
sleepycarol said:During set up of an 80 year old male, you notice a bluish color to his lips and fingernails. What device could be quickly used to assess the patient's oxygen saturation?
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Permalink Reply by D. W. Conn on
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Heck Rock The BRPT's RPSGT exam is going to on demand testing anytime during the year.
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What is sleep efficiency?
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how well you are refreshed after sleep
sleepycarol said:What is sleep efficiency?
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I was just reading about that Conn. I am hoping to have passed before that goes into effect. I was trying to sit in December. The window opens tomorrow and I still have not heard anything. I guess I'll have to wait until March.
D. W. Conn said:Heck Rock The BRPT's RPSGT exam is going to on demand testing anytime during the year.
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Keep the faith Rock!!! Without faith what have you got?
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