What is a Sleep study?
The sleep study is a diagnostic tool for sleep disorders, which can be used to record the following things: EEG, snoring and breathing interruptions during sleep using several sensors, oxygen level, heart rate, leg movements during sleep and complete video. sleep, then these cases should be manually analyzed by a sleep specialist to decide on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases.
In what cases is the sleep study used?
- For those who have symptoms of sleep apnea , including: snoring or breathing interruption during sleep, mouth breathing, rolling over a lot during sleep, sleeping on the stomach, morning headaches, daily fatigue, hyperactivity in children or sleepiness during the day, problems Mood or memory loss.
- People who have frequent leg movements during the night.
- People who suspect parasomnias , such as night terrors or sleep-related behavior disorders, and we want to distinguish them from some types of seizures.
- For treatment-resistant insomnia.
- For those who have increased daily sleepiness and we suspect some diseases in them such as narcolepsy.
- For children who have some special diseases such as cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, or scoliosis, etc., and we suspect ventilation problem syndromes.
- For respiratory titration
- Before deciding on tonsillectomy
- To follow up the patients who are being treated with various respiratory assistive devices.
- In people who have treatment-resistant hypertension or pulmonary hypertension with an unknown cause, or those who have treatment-resistant cardiac arrhythmias with sleep apnea symptoms.