Spot downtown users no longer have to navigate to a polysomnography.

– with this test greatly improves the ability to diagnose patients who suffer respiratory standstill full or partial while sleeping, a syndrome that affects up to 9% of the population

Spain, July 2012.- General Hospital El ‘ La Mancha Centro ’ Alcázar de San Juan (Ciudad Real), dependent on the Government of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain, it has expanded its portfolio of services with polysomnography, allowing you to make a more accurate diagnosis of diseases related to sleep, whether or not they are related to respiratory problems.

Thanks to the introduction of this new diagnostic test, the area of influence of the Mancha Centro Hospital patients, as well as users of other nearby health areas, transfers to other centres to access it, with the consequent benefit for themselves and their families, and with less standby time will be avoided.

It is a test for the diagnosis of respiratory disorders and sleep disturbances. This is done through the placement of various electrodes and sensors that recorded and processed activity, both cerebral and respiratory, while the patient sleeps in an area of income enabled especially in Hospital Mancha Centro. This record later discusses the medical specialist of the Pneumology Service to obtain an accurate diagnosis of possible alterations to patients during sleep.

The most frequent manifestation of SAHS is snoring loud and interrupted by pauses in breathing. 20% Of the general population is snoring, increasing to 50% after the age of 50.

From the Pneumology Service of Hospital Mancha Center they point out that the snoring should be considered as a symptom to keep in mind and not as a normal situation. It is cause of sleep disorders, disorders of health and marital problems, since the patient roncador couple is that suffers it more to not be able to sleep for the snoring of who sleeps beside her. You can produce a sleep apnea syndrome, hampers the night rest, significantly altering the quality of life. This syndrome is related to crowd disturbances cardiovascular, reaching SHAHS up to 25% of persons with hypertension.

This syndrome presents a diverse symptoms: dry mouth, excessive sleepiness during the day (might be just as dangerous as driving situations), difficulty of attention and concentration, changes in the State of mood, anxiety, headache, irritability, need to get up to urinate several times during the night, etc. All of these symptoms interfere in a clear manner in the normal activity of persons who suffer altering relations family and social and, at times, putting at risk his life and that of others, since for example up to 25% of traffic accidents are related directly or indirectly with the SHAHS. Before these symptoms should go in first instance to the treating physician to be later referred to the specialist in pneumology.

With each apnea, the oxygen in the blood drops. The amount of time spent without oxygenation, and the fact that this happens every night, can generate diseases that affect the heart and lung, unjustified loss of memory and even sexual disorders such as impotence or sexual appetite. The low quality of the dream causes the patient to rise tired, disgruntled, not wanting to engage in the work of the day and with sense of not rested despite having slept at a prudent time.