Getting ready for your sleep study at home.
Sleep Study at home, despite of many opinions out there, is by far the best polysomnography data location today. Precisely because the patient is in his daily environment, is possible to achieve longer and deeper stages of sleep allowing for the true amount of all respiratory disturbances.
What to do before the tech arrives at your home.
Most likely your Sleep Technician will call you before noon in order to coordinate the arrival time and parking instructions at your home. One hour before your bedtime will be ideal because usually he will need one hour to complete de hook-up protocol.
What to do upon the tech arrival and what to expect.
Sleep Study at home, despite of many opinions out there, is by far the best polysomnography data location today. Precisely because the patient is in his daily environment, is possible to achieve longer and deeper stages of sleep allowing for the true amount of all respiratory disturbances.
What to do before the tech arrives at your home.
Most likely your Sleep Technician will call you before noon in order to coordinate the arrival time and parking instructions at your home. One hour before your bedtime will be ideal because usually he will need one hour to complete de hook-up protocol.
- Take all of your regular prescribed medications according to your physician's instructions.
- Try to avoid naps during the day so that going to sleep will be easier during your study.
- Wash and dry your hair before going to the clinic. Do not apply sprays, conditioners, gels, or oils to your hair so that the electrodes that will be placed on you, stays firm during the night.
- Remove nail polish from index fingers. You will be wearing a pulse oximeter on one index finger.
- Have your evening meal prior to showing up for your study.
What to do upon the tech arrival and what to expect.
- Notify your sleep tech of any prescription medications and recreational drugs you take (be as honest as possible for best results).
- If your physician prescribes a sleep aid for the night of the study, ask the technologist when to take it.
- You're going to be hooked up to 22 monitoring channels that take about an hour to apply. Please be patient.
- Sleeping with a lot of equipment on can be a little uncomfortable, but your technologist will do everything they can to make you as comfortable as possible.
- During the Sleep Study, you will be able to walk around the house, use the restroom and watch TV without the assistance of your technician, but your room will have a two way intercom in the case you need to contact him anytime during the study.
- Your results will be ready the following day. Thanks to both the technologist and the sleep physician working in constant communication on line, we’ll be able to interpret the study's data.
Getting ready for your sleep study at the Sleep Lab.
In order to get the best results out of your sleep study, we want you keep your usual evening routine as much as possible. However, there are certain thing you can do to make the study go more smoothly, and still acheive the most accurate results.
What to bring
What to do before arriving for the study
What to do upon arrival and what to expect
In order to get the best results out of your sleep study, we want you keep your usual evening routine as much as possible. However, there are certain thing you can do to make the study go more smoothly, and still acheive the most accurate results.
What to bring
- Bring and take all of your regular prescribed medications according to your physician's instructions.
- Bring sleeping clothes such as pajamas or shorts and a t-shirt. Although your comfort is very important, it is not allowed to sleep naked the night of the study.
- Bring a favorite pillow or blanket if desired.
- Bring any other specialty items you may need for sleep or will need first thing in the morning such as toiletries, toothpaste, toothbrush, hair dryer, etc.
- Bring clothes to go home in, or clothes for work if heading to your job in the morning.
What to do before arriving for the study
- Try to avoid naps during the day so that going to sleep will be easier during your study.
- Wash and dry your hair before going to the clinic. Do not apply sprays, conditioners, gels, or oils to your hair so that the electrodes that will be placed on you, stays firm during the night.
- Remove nail polish from index fingers. You will be wearing a pulse oximeter on one index finger.
- Have your evening meal prior to showing up for your study.
- Have all paperwork given ahead of time filled out.
- Notify the sleep clinic if you need to come in early or show up later (most clinics ask you to be there around 7:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.) so that you can better be accommodated.
- Let the clinic know ahead of time if you have any special needs (e.g. trouble getting in/out of bed, any physical limitations, nocturnal enuresis, impairments, etc.).
What to do upon arrival and what to expect
- Notify your sleep tech of any prescription medications and recreational drugs you take (be as honest as possible for best results).
- If your physician prescribes a sleep aid for the night of the study, ask the technologist when to take it.
- You're going to be hooked up 22 monitoring channels that takes about an hour to apply. Please be patient.
- Sleeping with a lot of equipment on can be a little uncomfortable, but your technologist will do everything they can to make you as comfortable as possible.
- Your technologist will in the tech room, but your room will have an open intercom in the case you need to contact him anytime during the study.
- Your results will be ready the same day. Both the technologist and the sleep physician will need to interpret the study's data. You should receive your results in the afternoon.
