Feasibility in Every Day Pratice in an ENT Department and Value of the Automatic Detection of Respiratory Events
Feasibility in Every Day Pratice in an ENT Department and Value of the Automatic Detection of Respiratory Events
The use of respiratory polygraphy (RP) in children for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep
 apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) can be challenging: device acceptance, sensors displacement.
 The automatic analysis of respiratory events has never been evaluated in a pediatric
 population. The primary objective of this study was to determine the feasibility of pediatric
 RP in an ENT department routine practice. The second objective was to evaluate the
 reliability of the automatic signal analysis in children.
Retrospective single center study of 50 children (32 boys and 18 girls, mean age 5.5 ± 2.3
 years) who benefited from an overnight RP in an ENT hospitalization department between
 January and August 2016 for OSAS suspicion. Manual detection of respiratory events was
 performed by the same ENT specialist, and compared to the automatic analysis.
Inclusion criteria:

 -  Age between 2 and 12 years

 -  child having performed a ventilatory polygraph for suspicion of obstructive hypopnoea
 apnea syndrome

 Exclusion criteria:

 - over 12 years old