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A member asked:
I have to have a brain wave test and a sleep study can anyone tell me what to expect and what all they test for?
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Many things: Seizures, sleep apnea, periodic limb movements of sleep, how low and high your heart rate goes, how low your oxygen drops, whether you have any bizarre night time sleep behavior and how your sleep stages occur and for how long, how many times a night you wake up or have arousals, what your sleep efficiency is, whether apnea is worse on your back or sides or in rem sleep, abnl heart rhythms.+ more.
Answered 10/23/2013
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