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Sleep Disorder Center

A good night’s sleep at a Sleep Disorder Center?

Who needs to attend a Sleep Disorder Center?

What happens in a Sleep Disorder Centre? Where can you find a Sleep Disorder Center? Does anyone provide accreditation for a Sleep Disorder Center? If you are interested in the answer to any or all of these questions, it may be that you are a candidate for a sleep study conducted in a Sleep Disorder Center.

Sleep is essential to the physical and mental wellbeing of everybody. If your body is not getting regular, adequate sleep, the body ’screams out for sleep’, to repeat a cliché. Medical advice is likely to direct the sufferer of a sleep disorder to a Sleep Disorder Center.

To answer a couple of the questions posed at the beginning of this page, your medical professional will be able to direct you to a Sleep Disorder Center in your locality. You could also use the internet or phone book. A Sleep Disorder Center may be a standalone facility, housed in a public or private hospital, and may be privately operated or, for example, funded by an academic institution. However that may be, in order to properly diagnose a sleep disorder, it is very likely that a sleep study in a Sleep Disorder Center will be required.

Accreditation

The American Academy of Sleep Medicine was established in 1975 as the Association of Sleep Disorders Centers. It now has over 7,000 members drawn from clinicians, researchers and health care providers in the discipline of sleep medicine. A major function of the Academy is accreditation, which assures patients of certain standards in their chosen Sleep Disorder Center.

For a Sleep Disorder Center, AASM accreditation requires an application for five year accreditation, when a sleep specialist will inspect the center. Personnel and services are inspected and a report submitted to the AASM accreditation committee, in a process which can take up to six months. A new Sleep Disorder Center may apply for provisional accreditation for six months, in a process during which the new Sleep Disorder Center should build a good history of customer service and care, before becoming eligible for full accreditation.

At a Sleep Disorder Center, the patients undergo a sleep study while sleeping (or not, as the case may be). A sleep technician applies several sensors to various zones of the patient’s body which are connected to some fairly impressive electronic instruments. Various data are collected over the course of the study, over six or more hours. These data are used to properly diagnose the presumed sleep disorder.

There are various different conditions that a Sleep Disorder Center might investigate, including insomnia and the several forms of Sleep Apnea.

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