Comparison of home oximetry monitoring with laboratory polysomnography in children.

STUDY OBJECTIVES To measure the accuracy and reliability of a portable home oximetry monitor with an automated analysis for the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in children. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Alberta Lung Association Sleep Center, Alberta Children's Hospital Sleep Clinic. STUDY SUBJECTS Consecutive, otherwise healthy children, aged 4 to 18 years, presenting to the Pediatric Sleep Service at the Alberta Children's Hospital for assessment of possible OSA. INTERVENTIONS All subjects underwent 2 nights of monitoring in the home with an oximetry-based portable monitor with an automatic internal scoring algorithm. A third night of monitoring was done simultaneously with computerized laboratory polysomnography according to American Thoracic Society guidelines. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS Both test-retest reliability of the portable monitor-based desaturation index (DI) between 2 nights at home and between laboratory and home were high using the Bland and Altman analysis (mean agreement, 0.32 and 0.64; limits of agreement, - 8.00 to 8.64 and - 0.75 to 6.50, respectively). The polysomnographic apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) agreed poorly with the portable monitor DI (mean difference, 1.27; limits of agreement, - 12.02 to 15.02). The sensitivity and specificity of the monitor for the identification of moderate sleep apnea (polysomnography AHI > 5/h) were 67% and 60%, respectively. CONCLUSION Portable monitoring based only on oximetry alone is not adequate for the identification of OSA in otherwise healthy children.

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