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I had a lovely patient today that I was doing a home study on because she was having episodes of sleep paralysis. She said she went looking for answers on the internet and she said everything did not make sense to her. I sat her down for three minutes explained the problem and she left feeling much better and happy to be doing the home test. So this basically taught me two things. One, that...

As a sleep tech and a manager, I have learned that education is everything. The more information we give our patients, the more successful the study and (ultimately) their therapy will be. It is this part of the study that should really start at the doctor's office and continue all the way through the process. In our lab, it starts with the call for the appointment. I call each patient and...

With all the new ways of communicating you knew that it would eventually leak to the medical field. In sleep it has changed to allow us to perform studies and follow up with patients in a whole new way. Home sleep studies has come up with a whole new arsenal of new equipment to test for sleep. The newest technology the WatchPat uses peripheral arterial tension to determine if you stop...