Sleep Studies

We schedule sleep studies 7  nights a week and offer several locations for your convenience.

Latest Technology

 Provent Sleep Apnea Therapy is a prescription-only therapy for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

Medical Accreditation

We are accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). 

Titration Studies

Titration StudyPositive airway pressure (PAP) is a standard treatment for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a sleep related breathing disorder characterized by full or partial occlusion of the upper airway during sleep. Standard sleep medicine practice involves manual pressure adjustment by a sleep technologist during attended laboratory polysomnography (PSG) to eliminate obstructive respiratory-related events.

A PAP delivery system consists of three main components: a PAP device; a nasal, oral, or oronasal interface (i.e., nasal mask, nasal pillows, full-face mask) held snug to the face by headgear; and a flexible hose that connects the device to the interface. A PAP device is basically an air pump (fan-driven or turbine system) that draws in external, filtered air and delivers pressurized airflow, which is adjustable by varying the pressure valve diameter or fan/turbine speed. PAP devices are divided into four basic types depending on their pressure delivery system: (1) Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which delivers a single, fixed pressure to the patient during the night; (2) bi-level positive airway pressure (BPAP), which delivers a higher inspiratory PAP (IPAP) than expiratory PAP (EPAP); (3) auto-titrating positive airway pressure (APAP), which automatically increases CPAP or BPAP (IPAP/EPAP) as needed to maintain airway patency and then decreases the pressure if no abnormal respiratory events are detected within a set period of time; and (4) adaptive servoventilation (ASV), which uses a servocontroller that automatically adjusts pressure by breath-by-breath analysis to maintain a steady minute ventilation especially in heart failure patients with central sleep apnea and/or Cheyne-Strokes respiration.

Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2008

 

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