The Laboratory for Sleep Disorders has expanded from a small sleep lab in a temporary structure to a beautiful, newly constructed building on the hospital campus. The facility has been designed from the ground up with patients’ comfort and safety in mind and offers some of the most advanced sleep medicine technology available.
The sleep lab offers six private rooms with hotel-like amenities including specially made adjustable beds, private showers, independent temperature controls, and flat-screen televisions. All of the sleep lab’s amenities accommodate the special needs of bariatric patients.
The technician-to-patient ratio is 1:2, ensuring a high level of patient care and safety during sleep studies. The lab’s monitoring system allows technicians to continuously monitor a wide range of physiological functions, including changes in brain waves, saturation levels, respiratory effort, body movement, and carbon dioxide output.
The Laboratory for Sleep Disorders offers a complete continuum of diagnostic and treatment options for sleep disorders: evaluation, treatment plan design, patient education, and long-term follow up. Sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea can often go undiagnosed for years and have been linked to chronic health conditions including excessive daytime sleepiness, diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and death.
Because the sleep lab is associated with Southern Maryland Hospital, patients have easy access to a variety of talented specialists including ENTs, endocrinologists, bariatric surgeons, neurologists, and psychiatrists as well as weight management, cardiac risk reduction and cardiopulmonary rehabilitation programs.
The Laboratory for Sleep Disorders significantly advances the practice of sleep medicine in Southern Maryland Please call 301-877-4600 for more information.
