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Routine Cardiac Patient Screen for Apnea in Hospitals
Routine cardiac patient screening for Sleep Apnea in hospitals: http://www.sleepguide.com/forum/topics/ge-makes-big-move-for
Isn't this a huge step forward for Apnea awareness?
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Permalink Reply by Judy on
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Yes, if more and more hospitals AND STAFF become aware of sleep apnea in their in-patients. Randall certainly had very alert and conscientious hospital staff caring for him. I wonder if it was "just" because he was admitted for respiratory failure or if he would have gotten that same attention and knowledgeable staff had he been admitted for a different problem?
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Permalink Reply by Tim on
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This release was light on technical details and said that it is intended for use in cardiac units. They are adding currently available 3rd party sleep study technology to allow a sleep study to be done in a GE-monitored inpatient bed. This will definitely make it much easier to diagnose sleep apnea in cardiac patients, and hopefully be able to also titrate them for CPAP.
The nursing staff in the cardiac unit in my very large local hospital already watch patients for signs of sleep apnea, and the nurse I spoke to said that she has reported quite a few patients for having signs of sleep apnea. The hospital has a sleep clinic where they perform sleep studies on both out-patients and in-patients. I do not know how they manage the scheduling to perform these ad hoc sleep studies.
My partner, who does not have sleep apnea, has been in cardiac units a couple of times and wore a wireless heart monitor which monitored his heart whether he was in bed or anywhere in the cardiac unit. I wonder if these GE beds require that patients stay in bed to be monitored.
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Permalink Reply by Mike on
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I want to know what protocols hospitals have in place, if any, with respect to testing cardiac patients for Sleep Apnea. I remember my wife and i wanting her to be induced for labor at a certain stage of her pregnancy but the hospital had very specific protocols that prohibited it from happening. They were posted in the examination rooms for the Staff and physicians to see, and I was directed to it myself when I pushed a bit on why we couldn't have it done.
Tim said:This release was light on technical details and said that it is intended for use in cardiac units. They are adding currently available 3rd party sleep study technology to allow a sleep study to be done in a GE-monitored inpatient bed. This will definitely make it much easier to diagnose sleep apnea in cardiac patients, and hopefully be able to also titrate them for CPAP.
The nursing staff in the cardiac unit in my very large local hospital already watch patients for signs of sleep apnea, and the nurse I spoke to said that she has reported quite a few patients for having signs of sleep apnea. The hospital has a sleep clinic where they perform sleep studies on both out-patients and in-patients. I do not know how they manage the scheduling to perform these ad hoc sleep studies.
My partner, who does not have sleep apnea, has been in cardiac units a couple of times and wore a wireless heart monitor which monitored his heart whether he was in bed or anywhere in the cardiac unit. I wonder if these GE beds require that patients stay in bed to be monitored.
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