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Studies Offered

Diagnostic Sleep Study

The diagnostic sleep study measures your nighttime sleep patterns. The sleep tech observes you remotely throughout the night. You are connected to various leads and sensors, which allow the sleep tech to record and monitor your sleep. Leads are put on your scalp and face. A sensor on your finger monitors the oxygen level in your blood. Belts around your chest and belly measure breathing. Small pads on your chest record your heart waves. After lights-out, you will not be disturbed for the remainder of the night.

Treatment Sleep Study

If your diagnostic sleep study indicates a breathing disorder may be affecting your sleep, your physician may order a second night for a treatment sleep study. This study monitors your sleep pattern. Leads, sensors, and belts similar to the ones you wore for your diagnostic sleep study are used for this study. Prior to lights out, the tech will explain a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine. The CPAP machine creates as an air ‘splint’ holding your airway open. You will also be shown several types of CPAP masks. You can choose the one you think will be most comfortable. The pressure holding the airway open varies for each patient. Once your appropriate pressure is determined, the information is given to your physician. Your physician will order the pressure setting for your home machine.

Split Night Sleep Study

This study combines a diagnostic sleep study and a treatment sleep study all in one night. You will be connected to similar leads, sensors and belts as described above. The first half of the night, the tech monitors your sleep. Then, around 2 a.m., the tech will interrupt your sleep for only a few minutes and fit the CPAP mask to your face. The tech spends the remainder of the night remotely adjusting the pressure, which is designed to reduce or eliminate your breathing disorder.

Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT)

An MSLT is ordered to test for narcolepsy. An MSLT is a daytime study, which follows your diagnostic sleep study. In the morning, some of the leads and belts are removed. During the MSLT, you have a series of five napping opportunities throughout the day. Your physician is interested in three things: if you go to sleep at every napping opportunity; how quickly you go to sleep; and if you go into deep, restorative rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep.

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