Word: sleeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...McMahon she says generally enjoys but I only do it two nights a week, but she says of the hours, "that's one of the problems with working in a lab like this you tend to develop a sleep disorder yourself...
...tonight's patient After the all-night session, the results of the monitors will confirm the diagnosis of a severe obstruction in his throat, and the need for a tracheotomy. In other words, the patient will have a permanent incision made in his throat, which will enable him to sleep uninterrupted by bypassing the block. "Laxity of the soft tissues in the throat and palate," according to Stakes, makes the operation necessary...
Stakes leaves minutes later satisfied that she has it under control. Often say McMahon the doctor will stay especially if there is a patient who might encounter some sort of difficulty during the night and grab sleep when he can Stakes serves as a neurologist as well as an internist in day light and on nights when the lab is in service he says "I fit sleep in someplace...
...study of sleep explains Stakes is an extension of my internal medicine and neurology interests--it blends the training together...
...patients in the lab McMahon spends her time "scoring," that is translating the scribbling on the one third to one-half mile of paper generated in a night's monitoring into readable numbers. Each 20-second unit is assigned a number corresponding to the depth of the sleep during the period, and then marked on a grid. Those numbers can be led into a computer to aid the diagnosis of the disorder. The strips of paper are used so that both sides are written on, and they are microfilmed and thrown away. The microfilm is kept, however, because there...