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WellMax Sleep Center Services

The Wellmax Sleep Center offers a unique portfolio of services to diagnose and treat patients with sleep disorders. We use a multidisciplinary approach that brings together several diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. This platform provides the most comprehensive and cost effective means of meeting patients’ needs.

Consultation or Direct Referral Primary
Care physicians and specialists can request a sleep consultation or may make a direct referral for a specific test. Our sleep center staff is available for brief telephone consultation to discuss specific patients to help guide the referral into a best test direct referral and to explain our unique diagnostic options.

Polysomnography (Overnight sleep study)
Polysomnography,the simultaneous recording of neurologic and physiologic parameters is an overnight test performed on sleeping patients. Polysomnography generally includes monitoring of the patient’s airflow through the nose and mouth, electrocardiographic activity (ECG), blood oxygen level (SpO2), brain wave pattern (EEG), eye movement (EOG), and the movement of respiratory muscles and limbs (EMG). Polysomnography is used to help diagnose and evaluate a number of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, narcolepsy, parasomnias and to detect and evaluate seizures that occur during the night. All waveforms are recorded and the patient is monitored by the sleep technician via computer; the resultant study is then scored by a technician for physician review and interpretation.

Ambulatory Portable Monitoring
Portable monitoring, which has been available for 10 years, is the simultaneous recording of physiologic parameters in an overnight test to evaluate sleep disordered breathing. Sleep disordered breathing by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (formerly the American Sleep Disorders Association), includes central, mixed, and obstructive apnea and hypopnea syndrome. Physiologic parameters include the ECG, respiratory effort, airflow, saturation, pulse waveform and body position. These unattended studies are done at home and may be performed in any setting; i.e., a nursing home or assisted living facility. They are especially useful for patients who may be physically unable to come to the lab or if the lab is booked and you are strongly suspecting OSAHS as the problem. Ambulatory portable monitoring studies are diagnostic screening studies and if they are abnormal they are followed up with an in lab CPAP or BiPAP titration study. This process ensures that the home unit will meet insurance requirements for payment.