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Children’s Sleep Apnea Diagnostic Center

The first step to identify a sleep disorder is to visit a physician who specializes in sleep medicine such as the otolaryngologists at the Advanced Center for Specialty Care. The physician will discuss symptoms the child is experiencing and physical exam findings that may suggest a chronic sleep disorder such as sleep apnea. Following this visit, sleep diagnostic testing may be performed to identify the sleep disorder . The best chronic sleep disorders diagnostics test is a polysomnogram, or sleep study.

Traditionally, sleep studies have been done at a hospital or storefront sleep “lab.” It is often very difficult to sleep comfortably within these situations. IN order to create an environment to allow for comfortable, natural sleep, Sleep Diagnostic Center based their testing sites in luxurious hotel suites. Checking into a comfortable hotel creates a secure, relaxed atmosphere essential for a good nights sleep. As part of the study, you and your child are entitled to enjoy the hotel facilities. The rooms are designed so that data collection goes through a computer port directly to the technician’s suite.

There are pediatric sleep labs in Chicago and Sleep Diagnostics Centers are trained to test and identify sleep disorders in children over the age of 2. The testing can be performed at any of their hotel locations or by a mobile unit that will come to your home. The personnel at Sleep Diagnostics Center know it is important to make children feel as comfortable as possible during the sleep study. There are several monitors that must be placed on the skin. Some of these include bands around the chest and abdomen to measure breathing, and monitors resembling stickers on the head, chest, and finger to monitor brain activity, heart activity and blood oxygen levels. None of the monitors are painful and there are no needles used. The majority of children are able to fall asleep for the test without any difficulty.

In the morning following the sleep study, the monitors are removed and the child is free to resume all normal activities. The results will be sent directly to the doctor’s office for discussion during the follow-up visit. If the child is diagnosed with snoring, sleep apnea, or another sleep disorder, there are many treatment options. Snoring and sleep apnea treatments include non surgical therapies such as the use of Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mask at night, removal of the tonsils and adenoids if they are enlarged, and other procedures that can be discussed with the physician.
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