Question on Sleep Studies Reading

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dataq1
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Question on Sleep Studies Reading

Post by dataq1 » Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:50 pm

One of the notes on my Apenalink study was:

"The entire recording was reviewed and edited by a RRT/RST/RPSGT .....".

In actual practice does a technologist edit the recording?

I'm supposing that the ApneaLink software counts various events, but as we have seen the software may have a tendency to count certain events that are potentially false. (for example an apnea that occurs in close proximity to what appears to be an arousal - that perhaps shouldn't be counted at all).

So in actual practice does the technician "edit or remove" those events?
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