Sleep Scoring

Manual sleep scoring with expert technician is considered as a gold standard scoring technician. It evaluates total sleep time, stages of sleep, and apnea or hypopnea . Manual Sleep scoring technique requires a trained sleep technician to score initiation of sleep, stages of sleep, apnea or hypopnea index, sleep onset, and arousals and to follow each epoch on monitor.  Since, manual scoring is done manually which has considerable interscorer and intrascorer variability makes its reliability. Manual sleep scoring is usually performed for in-laboratory PSG studies and Home Sleep study scoring for some countries. 

There are Different studies like:

• PSG Studies: Performed on adults.
• PEDIATRIC STUDIES  -- Performed on Children and some cases on infants also
• Home sleep studies:  performed on old age people and who prefers home study.In this cases maximum Doctors prefer auto mated scoring for instant results.But in some cases they prefer Manual Scoring for accurate results.
• Neurology sleep studies