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Permalink Reply by lance patrick bettencourt on April 8, 2010 at 9:49am

Well for the most part sleep labs are wrost than motel 6 and with all the leads hook to your body you can't lay like you would at home and that has more to do with cfm you would need if you sleep
on your belly or side and or your back. Think about it your body weight comes into play
if you sleep standing on one leg then that's the way they need to test you to get real numbers
but they don't and why is this...............

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Permalink Reply by Walt Service on April 9, 2010 at 3:23am

We're much more like the 4 Seasons. Mucho comfy queen size beds in big pleasant rooms. Over the years I can count on one hand the # of patients who couldn't sleep due to the leads/wires hindering them. But, remember that most labs/centers just run diagnostic studies....you might not be as comfortable as you would in your bed at home, but in order to acquire the info we need all that stuff has to go on. Having patient sleep in their normal enviroment (like recliners) would mask disorders like OSA in such that sleeping inclined would assist in the patency of the airway.

lance patrick bettencourt said:

Well for the most part sleep labs are wrost than motel 6 and with all the leads hook to your body you can't lay like you would at home and that has more to do with cfm you would need if you sleep
on your belly or side and or your back. Think about it your body weight comes into play
if you sleep standing on one leg then that's the way they need to test you to get real numbers
but they don't and why is this...............

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Permalink Reply by RockRpsgt on April 9, 2010 at 4:59pm

Lance I do not know what lab you went to. At both labs that I have worked for we have catered to the pts individual sleep needs. If you wanted to sleep in the corner on your head we would allow it. I can also count the amount of pts that could not sleep on one hand. Not only is the equipment necessary, but the isolation from your normal sleep environment. We are not testing the sleep of your wife, children, or pets. All of these things can interrupt your sleep adn the data.

As far as I can remember I have only told a pt no to 2 things. You can't sleep nude. I do not want to see your stuff. If you would cover it in front of children I expect you to cover it in front of me. I can't sleep with you. I believe both of those to be pretty reasonable

Walt Service said:

We're much more like the 4 Seasons. Mucho comfy queen size beds in big pleasant rooms. Over the years I can count on one hand the # of patients who couldn't sleep due to the leads/wires hindering them. But, remember that most labs/centers just run diagnostic studies....you might not be as comfortable as you would in your bed at home, but in order to acquire the info we need all that stuff has to go on. Having patient sleep in their normal enviroment (like recliners) would mask disorders like OSA in such that sleeping inclined would assist in the patency of the airway.

lance patrick bettencourt said:

Well for the most part sleep labs are wrost than motel 6 and with all the leads hook to your body you can't lay like you would at home and that has more to do with cfm you would need if you sleep
on your belly or side and or your back. Think about it your body weight comes into play
if you sleep standing on one leg then that's the way they need to test you to get real numbers
but they don't and why is this...............

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Permalink Reply by Ross Ryan on September 1, 2011 at 1:10pm

The recliner will give you a lower number of events just because of the change in core pressure between supine and the recliner is 6-9 inches of water pressure.  If a person is having 60+ episodes an hour, the numbers you get in the recliner will be lower than they truly are, but they will still qualify for sever apnea.  

 

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