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Descriptor English: Polysomnography
Descriptor Spanish: Polisomnografía
Descriptor polisomnografía
Entry term(s) monitorización del sueño
somnografía
Scope note: Monitorización simultánea y continua de varios parámetros durante el sueño para estudiar si es normal o anormal. El estudio incluye la monitorización de las ondas encefálicas para evaluar las fases del sueño y otras variables fisiológicas, como la respiración, los movimientos oculares y la concentración de oxígeno en la sangre, que presentan patrones alterados en los trastornos del sueño.
Descriptor Portuguese: Polissonografia
Descriptor French: Polysomnographie
Entry term(s): Monitoring, Sleep
Polysomnographies
Sleep Monitoring
Somnographies
Somnography
Tree number(s): E01.370.520.625
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017286
Scope note: Simultaneous and continuous monitoring of several parameters during sleep to study normal and abnormal sleep. The study includes monitoring of brain waves, to assess sleep stages, and other physiological variables such as breathing, eye movements, and blood oxygen levels which exhibit a disrupted pattern with sleep disturbances.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
DE drug effects
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RE radiation effects
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Monitoring, Physiologic (1978-1992)
Sleep (1972-1992)
Public MeSH Note: 93
History Note: 93
Entry Version: POLYSOMNOGR
Related: Actigraphy MeSH
DeCS ID: 30611
Unique ID: D017286
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Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/22
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
Polysomnography - Preferred
Concept UI M0026240
Scope note Simultaneous and continuous monitoring of several parameters during sleep to study normal and abnormal sleep. The study includes monitoring of brain waves, to assess sleep stages, and other physiological variables such as breathing, eye movements, and blood oxygen levels which exhibit a disrupted pattern with sleep disturbances.
Preferred term Polysomnography
Entry term(s) Monitoring, Sleep
Polysomnographies
Sleep Monitoring
Somnographies
Somnography



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