Maintenance of Wakefulness Test

[billm]

Anyone out there done one? I'm scheduled for one later this week. Any advice would be welcome; I'm a bit anxious about sitting in a darkened room with nothing to do for 40 minutes at a stretch, the only time I'm not doing three things at a time is when I'm trying to go to sleep, which is expressly what you don't want to do during such a test.

Thanks.

[rested gal]

I've not had that done.

Here are some links about the test you're going to have -- MWT (Maintenance of Wakefulness Test) how well you can stay awake, and another kind of test -- MSLT (Multiple Sleep Latency Test) how fast a person falls asleep when given the opportunity to "nap."

Warning...all that reading at those links might PUT you to sleep.

[pedroski]

Hi Rested Gal,

The links didn't show up, could you repost, I'm interested in this too.

Peter

[rested gal]

ooops, I must've been taking a quick little nap while I wrote! I neglected to put the links in my post.

Here ya go:

http://www.aasmnet.org/PDF/280111.pdf

Practice Parameters for Clinical Use of the Multiple Sleep Latency Test and the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test
An American Academy of Sleep Medicine Report
Standards of Practice Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine



http://www.aasmnet.org/PDF/280112.pdf

The Clinical Use of the MSLT and MWT
REVIEW PAPER
Donna Arand, Ph.D1, Michael Bonnet, Ph.D2, Thomas Hurwitz, M.D3, Merrill Mitler, Ph.D4, Roger Rosa, Ph.D5 and R. Bart Sangal, M.D6
1 Kettering Medical Center, Dayton, OH, 2Dayton Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center and Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 3Minneapolis Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center and University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 4National Institute of Neurological Disorders & Stroke Neuroscience Center, Bethesda, MD, 5National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Washington, DC, 6Sleep Disorders Institute, Troy, MI
Citation: Review by the MSLT and MWT Task Force of the Standards of Practice Committee of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. SLEEP 2005;28(1):123-144.