睡眠障碍杂志:治疗和护理

Snoring Analysis. A Complex Question

Jose Antonio Fiz and Raimon Jane

Snoring Analysis. A Complex Question

The snore is a breathing sound that originates during sleep, either nocturnal or diurnal. Many procedures have been used for its analysis, from simple interrogation, going through acoustic methods that have been developed thanks to the advance of biomedical techniques in recent years. So far a procedure homologated by different laboratories for its study doesn’t exist. The present editorial describes the current state of the art in the snoring analysis procedures.