Sleep Apnea Flashcards
Infants need how much sleep?
16 hours
Teens need how much sleep?
9 hr
Adults need how much sleep?
7-8 hrs
Amount of sleep a night we got before the electric light bulb was invented.
10 hrs
Stage of sleep known as drowsiness, jerky movements.
Stage I sleep
This stage of sleep increases core and peripheral temperature, and relaxes muscles.
Autogenesis
Measures electrical activity at the surface of the brain.
Electroencephalogram (EEG)
The largest waves in an EEG.
Delta
Waves with the greatest frequency.
Beta
Sleep stage where there’s drowsiness and hypnic jerks.
Stage I
Waves in Stage I.
Alpha waves are replaced with Theta waves.
Stage I is what percent of Total Sleep Time?
5%
Need these for it to be Stage II sleep.
Spindles (assocaited with K complex).
Stage II sleep is what percent of total sleep time?
45
Stage II sleep does NOT have these characteristics:
- No eye movement
- Easily awake
- Dreaming is rare
How does the sleep spindle look?
Bunch of zig zags.
How does the K complex look?
Like a QRST complex in an EKG.
This stage is deep sleep or slow wave sleep.
Stage III
This sleep stage has Delta waves.
Stage III
This sleep stage has Delta waves more than 20% of the time.
Stage III
More common to find _________ in stage III of NREM sleep, though not as common as in REM sleep.
Dreaming
This most commonly occurs in Stage III sleep.
Parasomnia
What is parasomnia?
Weird things that people do in their sleep, like sleep walking.
This stage has Slow Wave Sleep (SWS)
III
When your muscles are in a paralyzed relaxed state.
Atonia
This sleep stage has:
- Rapid Eye movements
- Muscle atonia
- EEG desynchronization
REM
This sleep stage is AKA PARADOXICAL SLEEP because the brain activity is similar to that during waking hours.
REM
Considered the lightest stage of sleep, and normally occurs close to morning.
REM
A newborn baby spends more than 80% of total sleep time in this stage.
REM
NREM and REM cycles every….
90 minutes
In a sleep pattern, REM is at the ____ of the wave.
Top
In a sleep pattern, stage III is at the _____ of the wave.
Bottom
Not getting enough sleep makes you more sensitive to this.
Pain