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How Much Does A Home Sleep Study Cost
If you have a referral from your GP, Medicare will cover the majority of the cost of Nexus Healthcare Home Sleep Study. There is an additional cost to cover your Home Service by the Sleep Technician and the time it takes to download your study. You will need to pay this during the appointment time when the portable polysomnogram (PSG, the portable sleep study device) is attached to you.
read moreAlice PDx Home Sleep Study Device
For our Home Sleep Studies, we use the Alice PDx, a portable polysomnograph, a device for portable diagnosis of cardio-respiratory sleep disorders used by sleep labs, office-based doctors and home care providers. It provides for a 12 -16 lead channel study including leg movements. The Alice PDx is easy for the Sleep Technician to set up for the patient’s use in the comfort and privacy of their home.
The channels include:
7 Neuro Channels (EEG or EOG)
3 Differential EMG, plus references and ground
2 ECG providing measured and derived channels
Pressured Based (with snore) and Thermal Airflow
zRIP Effort (Abnomen and Thorax)
SpO2 (also Pleth and Pulse Rate)
Body Position
Sleep Apnea and Gestational Diabetes
Gestational Diabetes Linked To Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pregnant Women
Between three and eight per cent of pregnant women will develop gestational diabetes in Australia. Gestational diabetes is a condition where glucose levels in the blood rise to above normal levels in pregnant women. This form of diabetes occurs typically in the second trimester.
A new study found a link between gestational diabetes and sleep apnea, which causes brief interruptions in breathing during sleep. If sleep apnea goes untreated, it can raise the risk for stroke, cardiovascular disease and heart attacks.
read moreSleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a condition where you temporarily stop breathing (apnea or apnoea) while you’re sleeping. Your breaths could also be very shallow (hypopnea or hypopnoea). These temporary cessations of breathing or bouts of shallow breathing can last from a few seconds to a few minutes and can happen so many times an hour, even more than 30-60 times within a one-hour time span.
They may be accompanied by loud snorting, gasping or choking. This condition can interrupt you from getting a good night’s sleep, causing you to be tired and sleepy during the day.
read moreSleep Apnea and Women Brain Damage
Women With Sleep Apnea Have Higher Degree of Brain Damage Than Men, Study Shows
A first-of-its-kind study into sleep apnea has shown that women suffering from sleep apnea have, on the whole, a higher degree of brain damage than men with the disorder. The findings were presented last December 2012 by researchers at the UCLA School of Nursing.
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Wake Up To Snoring: Snoring, Even With No Sleep Apnea, May Be Early Signs of Future Health Risks
Snoring may put you at high risk to have thickening or abnormalities in the carotid artery, greater even than those who are overweight, who smoke or have high cholesterol, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
The carotid arteries are the pair of arteries that supply the head, neck, and brain with oxygenated blood. The increased thickening in the lining of these two large blood vessels is a precursor to atherosclerosis, a hardening of the arteries responsible for many vascular diseases.
read moreSleep Apnea Increases Risk of Heart Attack or Death
Sleep Apnea Increases Risk Of Heart Attack Or Death
Obstructive sleep apnea increases a person’s risk of having a heart attack and dying from it by 30% over a period of four to five years, according to studies performed over the last two decades.
The more severe the sleep apnea, the higher the risk.
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