Archive for the ‘Sleep Tech Corner’ Category

Help Our Research Project for a Chance to Win $100!

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

If you are an expert in Sleep Medicine and/or Neurology your opinion is highly important to our research project. (more…)

The Path to CPSGT

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

By Felipe Lerida, CPSGT

March of 2010 was a very important month in the field of Polysomnography technology as it marked the first time the Certified Polysomnographic Technician (CPSGT) exam was administered. (more…)

Tips for a Smooth Installation

Friday, August 20th, 2010

By Felipe Lerida, CPSGT

After being an installation coordinator at Sleepvirtual for the past three years, I have come to terms with Murphy’s law which states “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. (more…)

Sticky Wires?

Friday, August 20th, 2010

Sleep Tech Tip of the Week

By Michael Miller, RPSGT

This week’s sleep tech tip of the week comes by way of a third party. I was conducting a meeting last week with Sue Hoefs, hopefully she doesn’t mind the shout out but I like to give credit where it is due, and she suggested a tech tip that I had never heard of. (more…)

Summer Time

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

By Geraldo Rizzo, MD

The idea of daylight-savings time (DST) was, for the first time, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, who anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use the morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and (more…)