[A method for sleep apnea monitoring].

In order to establish the diagnosis of the sleep apnoea syndrome (SAS) and to determine which form of the condition is involved, it is frequently necessary to perform monitoring of the patient's sleep during an entire night. This is frequently a difficult task as monitoring must be undertaken under the most natural conditions for the patient. On requests, our department has developed a monitoring module which is constructed around the equipment already present in the department and is directed by a personal computer programme which we have developed for the purpose. We are thus now able to undertake continuous monitoring of the physiological parametres of greatest interest and the monitoring is carried out so that the patient is disturbed as little as possible in the night's sleep. The data collected in this manner are traced in a coordinate system and provide a good review of the course of the night's sleep.