A Home Sleep Study Process
If you think you need a home sleep study, here are the steps to follow: 1. See Your General Practitioner. Your GP will fill in a Referral Form 2. Request your GP Medical Centre to fax it to us on 07 3381 9025 3. We will call you to set an appointment 4. We will come to your home on the night of the appointment 5. At appointment time, ensure you have showered and are dressed in decent sleeping clothes 6. Our Sleep Technician will come to your home and attach the portable sleep test equipment on you 7. Limit your activities for the night and go to bed early so the testing equipment can capture sufficient sleep data 8. Next morning, remove the sleep test equipment, pack it carefully in its bag, and return it according to your sleep technician’s instructions 9. Your Sleep Technician will contact you when your Sleep Study has been analysed by your Sleep Specialist 10. We will advise you if you need to see the Sleep...
Home Sleep Study in Brisbane
Are people telling you that you snore loudly, or even stop breathing when you sleep? Get yourself tested with a home sleep study in Brisbane. Brisbane has several sleep hospitals and sleep labs in several places. But did you know that you can have this sleep test in the comfort of your own bed? In fact, because you are more comfortable in your own room, you tend to sleep better and so, the polysomnograph may be able to collect more data for the sleep physician to analyse.
Home Sleep Study Planning
What Happens During A Home Sleep Study?
Our Sleep Technician will come to your home a few hours before you go to bed between 5.00- 8.00 p.m. to attach the portable sleep study machine (called a Polysomnograph or PSG) to you. We require that you have showered before then and are dressed ready for bed. Prepare for this sleep study by not planning anything stressful for the evening so you can give your full attention to the sleep study procedures. In addition to the actual attachment of the machine, the Sleep Technician will measure your blood pressure, lung function, and fill in some paperwork. Our SleepTechnician will need about 1 hour and 15 minutes for the whole visit.
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.
Alice 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
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.
Sleep Apnea Treatments
Tonight, millions of people will be falling asleep only to wake up exhausted, irritable, and feeling just plain awful. If you are one of those suffering from a sleep breathing disorder, you’d be doing yourself a favour by looking at possible sleep apnea treatments.
Sleep should be something we look forward to every night, right? But if you have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), sleeping could be your worst enemy. If you live in Brisbane, Australia and need to be properly tested for OSA, call us on
(07) 3708 3233
You are likely to have sleep apnea if you are overweight (even just a little), have a thick neck, over forty years of age, drink alcohol, smoke or have a deformed airway passage. Signs that you may be suffering from this condition include snoring and people telling you that you stop breathing when you fall asleep.
Sleep apnea is a very serious problem as it blocks the airway passage and causes the sleeper to stop breathing for several seconds. If you stop breathing during sleep, your brain receives a signal telling you to wake up (although you may not remember waking.) Because your brain senses that your body is in danger, you awaken several times a night trying to catch your breath. The more times this happens, the less oxygen you take in and the less rest you get. In the morning you awaken only to find that you feel like you’ve never slept at all. (more…)
Cpap Machines
CPAP MACHINES FOR SLEEP APNEA THERAPY
Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious breathing disorder due to the many complications that come with it. However, it shouldn’t be a cause of panic. There are ways to cope with it, using CPAP machines being one of them.
A CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine is prescribed by a Sleep or Respiratory Specialist. CPAP is used in providing air pressure to keep your airway open and so avoid sleep disturbances. It also reduces your snoring which will make your bed partner a happier person.
The CPAP works by gently blowing air into the throat to improve the flow of air into the airways. It uses a special mask fitted over your nose and mouth into which air is blown at a certain pressure. This pressure is set so it would be just enough to prevent sleep apnea.