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AD – Alzheimer’s Disease
ADA – Americans with Disabilities Act
ADD – Attention Deficit Disorder
ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
AERMS – ambulatory electrocardiogram-respiration monitoring system
AHI – Apnea/Hypopnea Index
AI – Apnea Index
APAP (Auto-CPAP) – auto-titrating, self-adjusting device
Bi-PAP (BPAP) – Trademark name of a Bi-Level cpap machine.
BMI – Body Mass Index
BPM – Beats per minute
CDC – Center for Disease Control
CFIDS – Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
CFS – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
CHF – Congestive Heart Failure
CNS – Central nervous system
CPAP – Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (a nasal device to relieve obstructed breathing in a sleeping patient)
cps – cycles per second
CSR – Cheyne-Stokes respiration
DIMS – Disorders of Initiating and Maintaining Sleep
DME – Durable Medical Equipment
DOES – Disorders of Excessive Somnolence
DSPS – Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome
Dx – Diagnosis
EDS – Excessive Daytime Sleepiness
EEG – Electroencephalogram
EH – Essential Hypersomnia
EKG – Electrocardiogram
EMG – Electromyogram
ENT – Ear, nose, and throat
EOG – Electro-oculogram
EPAP – Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure
ENT – Ear, Nose, and Throat
GABA – Gamma-Amniobutyric Acid
GERD – Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
GHB – Gammahydroxybutyrate (a substance occurring naturally in the brain. To be sold as Xyrem)
HH – Hypnogogic Hallucinations
HLA – Human Leukocyte Antigen
Hz – Hertz (frequency)
Hx – Medical History
IPAP – Inspiratory Positive Airway Pressure
IRM – Institute of Respiratory Medicine
ITS – I’m Tired Syndrome
LAUP – Laser assisted uvulopalatoplasty
LMN – Letter of Medical Necessity
LTD – Long Term Disability
LO – Lights Out (beginning of sleep recording)
MAO – Monoamine Oxidase (an enzyme in the brain tissue)
MAOI – Monoamine Oxidase inhibitor (a class of anti-depressant.MHC)
MIRS – mandibular inclined repositioning splint
MRI – Magnetic Resonance Imagery
MHC – Major Histocompatibility Complex
MMOA (MMA) – Mandibular Maxillary Osteotomy and Advancement
MSLT – Multiple Sleep Latency Test
MWT – maintenance of wakefulness test
NCSDR – National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research
NN – Narcolepsy Network
NMH – Neurally Mediated Hypotension
NPT – Nocturnal Penile Tumescence
NREM – Non-Rapid Eye Movement (sleep)
NS-RED – Nonturnal sleep related eating disorder
OCD – Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
ODI – Oxygen desaturation index
OLP – Online Psych
O2 – Oxygen
OSA – Obstructive sleep apnea
OSAS – Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
PET – Positron Emission Tomography
PLMD – Periodic Leg Movement Disorder
PLMS – Periodic Leg Movements of Sleep
PND – Paroxsymal Nocturnal Dyspnea
PO2 – partial pressure of oxygen (O2) in the blood.
PSG – Polysomnogram
PTSD – post traumatic stress disorder
PWC – Persons w/CFIDS
PWN – Person (People) with Narcolepsy
PWON – Person (People) without Narcolepsy
POPWN – Parent of a person w/ Narcolepsy
PS – Paradoxical Sleep
RERA – Respiratory effort-related arousal
RBD – REM Behavior Disorder
RCP – Respiratory Care Practitioner
RDI – Respiratory Disturbance Index
REM – Rapid Eye Movement (sleep)
REML – REM latency
RF – Radiofrequency
RLS – Restless Leg Syndrome
R/O – Rule out
RSD – Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
Rx – Prescription
SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder
SaO2 – % of normal oxygen level in the blood.
SAS – Sleep Apnea Syndrome
SAHS – Sleep apnea/hypopnoea syndrome
SDB – Sleep disordered breathing
SEGS – Number of REM Segments
SEI – Sleep efficiency index
SEM – Slow Eye Movement
SIDS – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
SL – Sleep latency
SO – Sleep onset
SOREM – Sleep onset REM
SOPWN – Spouse of a PWN
SP – Sleep Paralysis
SPT – Sleep Period Time
Squib – Use of sensitive, superconductor, Josephson junction detectors to map brain activity
SRBD – Sleep-related breathing disorder
SRRD – Sleep-related respiratory disturbance
SSDB – Social Security Disability Benefits
SSI – Supplemental Security Income
SSRI – Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (the family of anti-depressants that include Prozac, Zoloft and Wellbutrin among others).
SSS – Stanford Sleepiness Scale
STD – Short Term Disability *OR* Sexually Transmitted Disease
SWL – Slow wave latency
SWS – Slow wave sleep
SWDS – Sleep-wake schedule disorder
Sz – Schizophrenia
S1-S4 – Sleep Stages 1-4
T&A – Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy
TB – Body Temperature
TCA – Tricyclic antidepressant
TIB – Time in Bed
TLC – Total Lung Capacity
TMT – Total Movement Time
Trec – Rectal temperature
TRD – Tongue retaining device
TRT – Total recording time
TREM – Total REM Time
TST – Total Sleep Time
TSW – Total Slow Wave Sleep (Stage 3 and 4)
TT – Total Time
TWT – Total Wake Time
Tx – Treatment
UARS – Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome
UPPP – Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty
VPAP – Variable positive airway pressure
WAFA – Wake time after final awakening
WASO – Wake time after sleep onset
