White Mountain Regional Medical Center’s new state-of-the-art Sleep Diagnostic Center;
staffed with polysomnographic technologists with access to registered nurses and
respiratory therapists. This new service will allow patients to have sleep testing
without traveling long distances; have the results from their studies completed
at the Medical Center; with quick turn around of results to local primary care providers.
Sleep disorders are common effecting as much as 35% of the adult population and
they have a negative impact on personal health, productivity and quality of life.
Healthy sleep is not merely “Time Out” from daily life. It is an active state essential
for mental and physical restoration.
The following procedures are being performed at WMRMC:
- CPAP
- Bi-level PAP
- Supplemental O2
- Multiple Sleep Latency
- Maintenance of wakefulness tests
- Monitoring for heart rhythm
- Periodic leg movements
- Narcolepsy
- Insomnia
- Rapid Eye Movement (REM) behavior
- Nocturnal Seizures
- Electroencephalography (EEG)
- Sleep Apnea
Discuss your sleep problems with your primary care provider to determine if a sleep
study is in your best interest. The Sleep Diagnostic Center provides a pleasant
atmosphere in which patients can feel comfortable with their surrounds, as well
as with the procedures. Regardless of your disorder or treatment, the caring staff
at the WMRMC’s Sleep Diagnostic Center will work closely with you and your primary
care doctor to help you get a good night sleep.