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	<title>Sleep Apnea &#187; The Sleep Center: Testing for Sleep Apnea</title>
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		<title>Sleep Apnea, Who Needs Treatment?</title>
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After your sleep test, in a follow-up visit or phone call, your sleep specialist will review your sleep test results with you: RDI, oxygen saturastion record, MSLT. These data and consideration of your overall health will help him decide whether your sleep apnea is serious enough to need treatment.
People usually need immediate treatment if their [...]


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		<title>Determining the Severity of Sleep Apnea</title>
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When is a person’s sleep apnea severe enough to cause concern?
Sleep specialists define “clinical” sleep apnea (sleep apnea that needs medical attention) in the following terms:
1. An apnea event is when breathing stops for more than 10 seconds.
2. A hypopnea event is a partial apnea in which airflow in and out of the lungs is [...]


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		<title>At-Home Sleep Testing: Portable Monitoring</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It sometimes is not necessary to spend a night in a sleep disorders center. In-home testing for sleep disorders (also called portable monitoring or ambulatory monitoring) is a new and developing field. For certain patients, and under certain conditions, the sleep specialist may suggest that the sleep study be done in the person’s home.
Having a [...]


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		<title>The “Split-Night” Sleep Study</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The standard way to diagnose and treat sleep apnea requires two full nights in the sleep lab. The first night is for a diagnostic sleep study. If the sleep specialist diagnoses sleep apnea and prescribes the most common treatment, CPAP , the patient spends a second full night in the sleep lab so that the [...]


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		<title>A Visit to a Sleep Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s assume that you suspect you may have sleep apnea. Your first contact with a sleep center will probably be something like Mr. Kennedy’s. His wife said, “Honey, please do something about that snoring,” so he made an initial appointment with the sleep specialist at the nearest sleep center. Mrs. Kennedy was asked to come [...]


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