Ezopiclone Improves the Quality of Overnight Polysomnography

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2007-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Patients often have difficulty sleeping during overnight sleep testing in a lab environment. The purpose of this study is to determine if taking a sleep aid will improve sleep and therefore the quality of the sleep study.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Walter Reed Army Medical Center
• Collaborator: Sunovion
• Treatments: Eszopiclone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• All adult patients aged 18-65, evaluated by a sleep medicine provider in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center Sleep Disorders Clinic, who are referred for PSG for suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Exclusion Criteria:

• Pregnancy

• Liver dysfunction or history of EtOH abuse

• Concomitant use of benzodiazepines, narcotics or ketozonazole

• Decompensated CHF

• CVA within 3 months

• Uncontrolled psychiatric disorders

• Patients < 18 years old

• Patients over 65