A Patient With Suspicious Oxygen Desaturations at Sleep Onset

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 14, No. 8 August 15, 2018 Your sleep tech asks you to check on the veracity of oxygen desaturations noted prior to sleep onset in a child who presented for a sleep study to evaluate the family’s reports of apneic events. The patient is a 2-year-old female who was referred by a pediatric neurologist for further evaluation of the family’s reports of apnea noted prior to sleep onset. The child was developing normally until approximately 6 months prior when she began to have regression of language and developed unusual hand movements. Physical examination was most remarkable for mild decrease in head circumference with child noted to be SLEEP MEDICINE PEARLS