Recommendations for the Performance of Sleep Studies in Australia and New Zealand during Periods of High Community Transmission of COVID-19

15 February 2022

The Clinical Committee has produced a significantly updated version of the ASA’s COVID consensus statement to provide general guidance to sleep services for the expected varying risk levels that now characterise the pandemic.

The new guidelines provide recommendations to assist services in mitigating COVID-19 risk in sleep services. These recommendations assess risks in different scenarios and advise on hazard reduction, aiming to complement overarching government and institutional guidelines on risk mitigation, particularly during periods of high community transmission of COVID-19. 

Read the guidelines