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If you have trouble sleeping, we can help! RAMC is proud to offer our Accredited Sleep Lab with Certified Sleep Specialists Dr. Eric Newgent, DO, MS and Steven Weber, PhD, DABSM, along with a specially trained nursing and polysomnography staff. |
Sleep disorders increase the risk of high blood pressure, fatigue-related accidents, depression, and contribute to poor work, school, and social performance.
Sleep Apnea is a life-threatening disorder which frequently causes you to stop breathing. It can happen hundreds of times a night while you sleep, and you may not even be aware it is happening. In fact, approximately 80 percent of sleep apnea cases go undiagnosed.
Approximately 40 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders.
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Here are two tests to help you determine if you may have Sleep Apnea:
What we can do for you
If you think you have a sleep disorder contact your physician or Dr. Newgent (a referral is not needed to see Dr. Newgent in the Sleep Well Lab). They may request that you have a sleep study.
Monitoring your sleep during an overnight sleep sudy is usually the only way to tell for certain whether or not you have a sleep-related breathing disorder. A sleep study records how your lungs, heart, brain and other parts of your body function while you are asleep. The testing is painless, risk-free, and usually takes eight to ten hours. This is also available during the day for shift workers. If you have sleep apnea during the night, CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) will be provided. This is a device that keeps the airway open, preventing apnea and frequent awakenings.
They may also request you have a daytime multiple sleep latency test, which is often done following an overnight sleep study. This test takes about seven hours to complete. It is not a treatment but a single test that contributes to your total medical evaluation. After the request is received from your physician, you will be scheduled to come to the sleep disorders laboratory. The multiple sleep latency test will record your brain waves (EEG), heart rate (EKG), muscle activity and eye movements. These signals are recorded on a graph which is reviewed by a physician with training in sleep disorders.
If you have trouble sleeping, call RAMC's Sleep Medicine Department for an appointment - no referral is needed
(608)768-6258