1 Comments Posted by sleepytech

Yes these are pictures of a sleep study.

Your interpretations of it are comical. I do think the photos have a cool factor, even for a seasoned sleep tech.

The top portions are obviously photographs of the patient every 4 minutes or so throughout the night.

the bottom portion includes some EMG, EEG and possibly EOG. (muscle activity, brain activity, and eye activity)

You see the #s 48, 49, 50...these are what we call "epochs" or 30 second pages of sleep. The smaller vertical lines are each 1 second.

It would appear the patient is actually awake and there is no sleep present. The ink splatter is suggestive of a fairly older "sleep machine" Its reflecting a gross body movement that has occluded, at least partially so the rest of the channels

What I find interesting is that there are no wires attached to this person. Makes me think this photo was simply some kind of marketing tool. Sleep Studies are notorious for having many wires and if this is showing any kind of EEG/EOG we should be seeing at least 5 "leads" coming from this patients head/face.

After blowing up the "distrub" photo, the first one appears to reveal the common "squares" used to paste electrodes on. It does appear there is some kind of machine on the upper right of the photo. Perhaps my marketing tool impressions are wrong.

Seems to me the guy is awake and just moving around.

As far as patient rights go.....Is the guy identifiable? can you make out his face? could he prove its him? Do we know for sure its a guy and not a girl? Sure its arguable this persons rights have been violated, but might be a tough one to prove

thank you Bill Clinton for the security machine known as HIPPA. Help this guy he needs you now! hahah.