Home sleep testing

Sleep disordered breathing, also known as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), is a highly prevalent disease occurring with a variety of life threatening comorbidities. For years, polysomnography has been considered the gold standard in diagnosis, consequently resulting in high costs and difficulty for head and neck surgeons to participate in the practice of sleep medicine. The development of multichannel home sleep testing by a variety of manufacturers offers a cost-effective and highly reliable method of screening for and diagnosing OSA. To complete the head and neck surgery sleep medicine practice, surgeons should provide sleep consultations and comprehensive diagnostic services out of their offices utilizing multichannel home sleep testing.