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Write down all body wires that will be placed on patient in a Polysomnography (PSG).
Polysomnography is a sleep study method. Itvis multi-parametric
test. It is used to study sleep and used as diagnostic tool in
sleep medicines. Then get a result from this,itvis know as
polysomnogram. Itvis denoted as PSG.
In a typical polysomnogram record minimum 12 channels required for
22 wire attachment for the patient. These wires are differ in each
and every lab or according to doctors need. Here minimum of 3
channels used for EEG.one or two used for measuring the air flow.
For chin muscle tone one or two are used. For eye movement
measurements two are used.one or more are used for leg movement.one
or two are used for the measurement of heart rate and their
rhythm.one for oxygen saturation and one is used as belt ,it will
be used to measure the chest wall movement and upper abdominal wall
movement. The wires in each channel records the data and they are
recorded in a central box, they are connected with the computer for
the purpose of recording, storage and displaying of data.