Sleep Laboratory
The sleep laboratory is an activity that requires a multidisciplinary approach of neurology, ENT, chest and psychiatry specialists. Responsibility is carried out with this awareness.
In the sleep laboratory, the patient is put into normal sleep and examined by making the above-mentioned records. Although the definitive diagnosis of sleep disorders is made in places that are specially equipped for this work, which we call sleep laboratories, not all complaints of poor sleep can be confirmed in the laboratory or pathology can be revealed by examinations when there is no obvious complaint.
Our sleep laboratory consists of two sleep rooms, a phototherapy room, a sleep deprivation room and a central digital examination system.
In sleep laboratories, polysomnography and EEG (electroencephalography), eye movements (EOG=electrooculography), jaw EMG (electromyography), respiratory records (airflow, chest and abdominal muscle movements, oximetry), ECG (electrocardiography), leg EMG records are provided and sleep studies are performed by revealing sleep stages.
If a multidisciplinary approach is not taken into account in the whole treatment, it is difficult to talk about a realistic treatment because careful examination and work planning of more than one branch is required to get to the root of the problem that causes this condition. Apart from all these, a psychiatric approach is often required in treatment.
When Should You Consult a Sleep Laboratory?
If you are thinking of applying to a sleep laboratory, it means that you have chronic insomnia problems or sleep attacks.
These problems are
- If you cannot sleep at all
- If you sleep excessively and have difficulty getting up, which negatively affects your social life
- If you keep waking up at night
- If you sleep even when sitting
- Even if you sleep a lot, you can't rest and still feel tired
- If you wake up jumping out of bed
- If you are having very bad nightmares and bad dreams, you need to consult a sleep laboratory because this condition will make your life more difficult unless it is treated.
Problems with sleep are manifested in the following ways
- When you go to bed at night, you cannot fall asleep for more than 20 minutes
- You fall asleep quickly but wake up too often
- You wake up very early and can't go back to sleep
- If all these symptoms last longer than two weeks
- If there is a pause in breathing during sleep
- If you have difficulty breathing or are out of breath when you wake up
- If you snore loudly and irregularly
- If you have high blood pressure
- If you have congestive heart failure
- If there is excessive sleepiness during the day
- If you are overweight obese
- Sleeping at inappropriate hours (while driving, talking, etc.)
- If you have headaches in the morning
- If there is nervousness
- Poor judgment, inattention, memory loss
- If you are depressed
- You have nightmares or disturbing dreams
- If you walk or talk yourself to sleep
- If you have repetitive leg movements while sleeping
- If you have temporary weakness of the body or speech muscles due to excitement, anger or other strong emotions, you should seek support from a sleep laboratory or sleep center.
