PLMS

Question 1

Treatment

Answer 1

when associated with RLS, insomnia, daytime fatigiue
Dopamine agonists- for symptomatic PLMStogether with RLS
Gabapentin- for patients not tolerating dopaminergic agents or are at risk for augmentation

Question 2

Scoring

Answer 2

4 or more LMs

LM- duration >=0.5 secs and <=secs

min amplitude above baseline of 8 micro volt increase in EMG voltage lasting between 0.5-10 secs

An event is the start at which the EMG voltage amplitude increases to at least 8 microvolt and the ene dof an event is when EMG voltage drecreases to <=2 microvolt over 0.5 secs.

min period of 5 secs
max period of 90 secs between any 2 LMs