A sleep study or polysomonography is gold standard diagnostic tool for sleep disordered breathing. Polysomnography records your brain waves, the oxygen level in your blood, heart rate and breathing, as well as eye and leg movements during the study.

Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and starts. If you snore loudly and feel tired even after a full night’s sleep, you might have sleep apnea.

The main types of sleep apnea are:

Obstructive sleep apnea, the more common form that occurs when throat muscles relax

Central sleep apnea, which occurs when your brain doesn’t send proper signals to the muscles that control breathing

Complex sleep apnea syndrome, also known as treatment-emergent central sleep apnea, which occurs when someone has both obstructive sleep apnea and central sleep apnea

• Excessive daytime sleepiness
• Dry mouth or sore throat when you wake up
• Morning headache, confusion
• Trouble concentrating, forgetfulness, depression, or irritability
• Sexual dysfunction
• Trouble getting up in the mornings

• Loud habitual snoring
• Witnessed apneas
• Gasping and choking sensations
• Nocturia
• Insomnia; restless sleep, often experiencing frequent arousals

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• Obesity [BMI>30kg/m2]
• Neck size [Collar size > 17 inches in males, >16 inches in females]
• Gender [male/female 2 – 3:1]
• Genetic factors/Family history
• Specific genetic disorders
• Endocrine disorders, neurological disorders
• Alcohol, sedatives or hypnotic use
• Post menopausal state
• Smoking

• Being older. Middle-aged and older people have a higher risk of central sleep apnea.
• Being male. Central sleep apnea is more common in men than it is in women.
• Heart disorders. Having congestive heart failure increases the risk.
• Using narcotic pain medications. Opioid medications, especially long-acting ones, increase the risk of central sleep apnea.
• Stroke. Having had a stroke increases your risk of central sleep apnea or treatment-emergent central sleep apnea.

Your doctor may make an evaluation based on your signs and symptoms and a sleep history, which you can provide with help from someone who shares your bed or your household, if possible.

An evaluation often involves overnight monitoring at a sleep center of your breathing and other body functions during sleep. Home sleep testing also might be an option. Tests to detect sleep apnea include:

Nocturnal polysomnography. During this test, you’re hooked up to equipment that monitors your heart, lung and brain activity, breathing patterns, arm and leg movements, and blood oxygen levels while you sleep.

Home sleep tests. Your doctor might provide you with simplified tests to be used at home to diagnose sleep apnea. These tests usually measure your heart rate, blood oxygen level, airflow and breathing patterns.

If the results are abnormal, your doctor might be able to prescribe a therapy without further testing. Portable monitoring devices don’t detect all cases of sleep apnea, however, so your doctor might still recommend polysomnography even if your initial results are normal.

If you have obstructive sleep apnea, your doctor might refer you to an ear, nose and throat doctor to rule out blockage in your nose or throat. An evaluation by a heart doctor (cardiologist) or a doctor who specializes in the nervous system (neurologist) might be necessary to look for causes of central sleep apnea.

CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) therapy is the gold standard treatment option for moderate to severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Sr. Kalpesh Panchal and his team at Swastik Hospital provides the best sleep apnea treatment in Ahmedabad. The primary treatment for sleep apnea is CPAP machine. The CPAP treatment or CPAP machine delivers a stream of compressed air at a prescribed pressure via nasal mask so that unobstructed breathing becomes possible, which balances the reduced oxygen in the blood and prevents apnea. This gives quality sleep and quality life to the patient and reduces snoring. You have to use this throughout the night. Here are some benefits:

• Rapidly reverses de-saturation, arousals, and apneas.
• Abolishes snoring
• Reduces sleepiness in just 1 night.
• Improves daytime vigilance
• Reverses HT, CCF, PH, cor pulmonale, arrhythmias
• Better control of diabetes
• Reduces mortality; normalizes survival in 5 years

Sleep apnea or another sleep-related breathing disorder. In this condition, your breathing repeatedly stops and starts during sleep.

Periodic limb movement disorder. In this sleep disorder, you involuntarily flex and extend your legs while sleeping. This condition is sometimes associated with restless legs syndrome.

Narcolepsy. You experience overwhelming daytime drowsiness and sudden attacks of sleep in this condition.

REM sleep behavior disorder. This sleep disorder involves acting out dreams as you sleep.

Unusual behaviors during sleep. Your doctor may perform this test if you do unusual activities during sleep, such as walking, moving around a lot or rhythmic movements.

Unexplained chronic insomnia. If you consistently have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, your doctor may recommend polysomnography.