The Sleep Study by Dr. Christopher Chang produced in cooperation with
Commonwealth Sleep Center and Fauquier ENT Consultants. When there is some
concern that your sleep may be disturbed, your physician may order a sleep study.
The sleep study obtains objective information of how well you are
sleeping. This video goes over what to expect at a sleep center. You first check
in at the reception desk after which you may wait in the common area. From this
common area, there will be several private bedrooms of which you will be
sleeping in one. Each bedroom has an adjacent private bathroom with bath. Next
to each bed, there is a computer that collects data from your sleep and sends
it to a data center where your sleep is analyzed. The wires are going to monitor
you're breathing effort as you sleep. The breathing, is breathing in and out, your
chest cavity rises up and down. That would measure your breathing
effort. Lift up your hands for me please. Just put them outside. Hold there for me.
Also there's a little one in the middle there. This one here monitors your
sleeping position.
Anything attached to the patient then gets transmitted into a box which then
records the data into the computer.
This probe measures the amount of snoring a person has.
Generally, when you're awake your oxygen level should be 100%.
These are probes to measure any leg movement during sleep.
Sometimes people tend to jump their legs during the night-time. This keeps them up during during the night.
The skin is now being prepared on the face for probe placement.
These on the head will monitor the various sleep stages
that you are going through. This will monitor your eye movements.
Electrical signals that come from your various points will be picked up
by these electrodes.