Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders
Sleep laboratory
Why a Sleep Study?
Here at Boston Children's Hospital, countless families have experienced firsthand the importance of a sleep study.

Providing a baseline for each child's health
A sleep study yields essential information about several child health indicators, including:
- brain activity
- heart rate
- eye and muscle movements
- respiration
Making key determinations
Sleep studies are critical diagnostic tools that can make all the difference in identifying—and ruling out—a wide variety of sleep disorders and sleep-related breathing disorders in infants, children and teens, including:
- central sleep apnea
- obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
- sleep-related hypoventilation
- nocturnal events vs. nocturnal seizures
- periodic breathing
- periodic limb movements of sleep (PLMS)
- sleep state misperception
- a need for titrate positive airway pressure therapy (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, or CPAP, and Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure, or BiPAP)
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