Polysomnography Guideline

AAO-HNS Clinical Practice Guideline: Polysomnography for Sleep-Disordered Breathing Prior to Tonsillectomy in Children

The polysomnography guideline (PSG) provides otolaryngologists with evidence-based recommendations for using polysomnography in assessing children, aged 2 to 18 years, with sleep-disordered breathing and are candidates for tonsillectomy, with or without adenoidectomy. 

The guideline will be published as a supplement in the July 2011 issue of Otolaryngologists - Head and Neck Surgery (http://www.entnet.org/educationandresearch). To learn more, please check out helpful information below; a press release, talking points for the media and physicians, and the guideline.

Press Release

Clinical Practice Guideline: Polysomnography for Sleep-Disordered Breathing Prior to Tonsillectomy in Children

Fact Sheets

The Media & the Public

Physicians

PSG Guideline

Polysomnography guideline

PSG Podcast

PSG podcast