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RPSGT- exam 3/Questions & Answers (Register Polysomnograph Technician)
RPSGT- exam 3/Questions & Answers (Register Polysomnograph Technician)
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RPSGT- exam 3/Questions & Answers(Register Polysomnograph
Technician)
A collection of electrode derivations used in a sleep study is called a: - -
montage
-Which of the following terms describes external or environmental time
cues? - -Zeitgeber.
-At what percentage of the distance from the nasion to the onion is Fz
located up from the nasion? - -30 %
-Which of the following techniques best promotes patient compliance with
PAP therapy? - -Management of interface problems and leaks, and nasal
congestion and airway dryness.
-During standard polysomnography, the electrooculogram high frequency
filter should be set at: - -35 Hz
-A combination of electrical companents designed to increase power,
voltage or current of a signal is a(n): - -amplifier.
-Prior to lights out you would explain all of the following EXCEPT: - -the need
to lie supine throughout the entire study.
-A simple self-administered questionnaire that is used to assess a patient's
perception of sleepiness is known as the: - -Epworth Sleepiness Scale.
-According to the principes of differential amplification, electrical
interference can best be prevented if: - -electrode impedances are similar.
-You begin a sleep study on a patient at 9:30 pm. At 10:45 pm, you think to
yourself that the patient should be in stage N3 by now, but the EEG does not
demonstrate this. You realize that the low frenquency filter is set at 3 Hz.
The appropriate instrumentation change would be to : - -decrease the low
frequency filter to 10 Hz.
-The best description of the PAP Mode: APAP (Automatically titrating airway
pressure) is that APAP maintains: - -varying pressure levels through the
night to keep the airway open.
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