Understanding your sleep report
Each sleep study performed by us includes a comprehensive, 3-page sleep study report that is sent to the referring doctor. The report covers:
- Patient details and history
- Sleep-related diagnoses with colour print-out
- Personalised treatment recommendations, based on up-to-date treatment guidelines and evidence based medicine
- Detailed sleep statistics
- Respiratory statistics, snoring volumes and oxygen saturation profile
Sleep study scoring
Every study is scored by our BRPT-registered senior staff, working to the standards set by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA) and the Australasian Sleep Technologists Association (ASTA).
Legend for acronyms
Your report uses standard clinical terminology. This legend explains the terms you’ll see:
- Arousal
- A brief awakening from sleep, often triggered by a breathing event – frequent arousals fragment sleep quality.
- BMI
- Body Mass Index – a weight-to-height ratio used as a risk indicator for obstructive sleep apnoea.
- CPAP
- Continuous Positive Airway Pressure – the gold-standard therapy that keeps the airway open during sleep.
- ESS
- Epworth Sleepiness Scale – a validated questionnaire measuring daytime sleepiness.
- Level 1
- An overnight, in-laboratory sleep study attended by a sleep technician.
- REM sleep
- Rapid Eye Movement sleep – the dreaming stage; breathing events are often most severe here.
- REM-latency
- Time taken to reach the first period of REM sleep after falling asleep.
- Sleep-latency
- Time taken to fall asleep after lights out.
- Sleep-related history
- The clinical history relevant to your sleep – symptoms, medications and lifestyle factors.
Respiratory event types
The report identifies and classifies each respiratory event recorded overnight – obstructive, central and mixed apnoeas, hypopnoeas, and respiratory-effort-related arousals – so your doctor can see not just how often events occur, but what kind they are and when.
Equipment set-up videos
Follow along with your sleep technician as they walk through setting up your home sleep study device before bed.