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What is a sleep study?

A sleep study is a complex physiological recording conducted as part of an overall evaluation to look at what is happening during sleep.  Many things are recorded including brain wave activity (EEG), muscle tone (EMG), heart rate (ECG), breathing patterns, oxygen levels, leg movements and video of abnormal movements and behaviours.  In addition, these standard recording channels, there are a range of additional recordings that can be added, depending upon the clinical problem. 

Why Sleep Studies Matter:

  • Accurate Diagnosis
    Capture a comprehensive picture of your sleep to pinpoint specific disorders.sleep.
  • Personalised Treatment
    Basis for developing targeted treatment strategies to address your sleep issues effectively.
  • Improved Health Outcomes
    Better sleep leads to improved mental health, cardiovascular health, and overall quality of life.

How does a sleep study work?

Sleep studies are generally conducted in a sleep laboratory, which is a specially constructed facility, often within a hospital or sleep clinic, with measures to control noise, light and electrical interference.  In the evening, sleep technologists apply recording electrodes, and monitor recordings whilst patients are sleeping.  Alternatively, advances in technology now allow good quality sleep recordings to be performed in the home. 

In around 1 in 20 cases, sleep studies performed at home need to be repeated because a critical recording electrode has become disconnected during sleep. For selected patients, having a sleep study at home provides an alternative to sleep laboratory-based studies.

What happens next?

Once a sleep study has been performed, the data recorded needs to be analysed.  This is very time consuming, as during an average sleep study around 1000s pages of information are recorded, and these are looked at page by page to determine the type of sleep and number of events such as breathing problems that occur across the night.  

What does my sleep physician do?

The sleep physician’s role is to integrate the data recorded during a sleep study with a patient’s symptoms to make a diagnosis and treatment plan that is suited to the individual patient.

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