Bella News - Sleep Study results

When Kurt spoke to the neurologist secretary, she said she would send him a copy of the sleep study. We just received it today. It shows that it has been sent to the pediatrician, so it should be interesting to see how long they take to report back to us. The irritating thing is that it shows it was dictated on 4-11; that's 5 days after the study, but it has taken this long for them to get it to us.
These are the results as best as I can understand them. It shows that she had 99 arousals and 15 awakenings. Her REM sleep measured at 9.6% and it should be between 15-30%. It says there were no apneas (breathing is interrupted by a physical block to airflow) and 6 hypopneas (episodes of overly shallow breathing or an abnormally low respiratory rate). With an episode of hypopnea, there remains some flow of air to the lungs. It also says that there were no periodic leg movements and no EEG abnormalities the night of the study.
Our ER Dr. said to test for seizures, they will hook them up to an EEG and flash lights and take them in and out of seizures, so she may have to have another EEG at some point. The good news is that her CT scan came back fine, so that's a big positive. At this point, we just have to wait til the 20th, so we can get with someone who is an expert at this.