Home Sleep Study

Healthway Medical is pleased to offer patients home based study technology, to be conducted in the comfort of your own home.

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a common condition characterized typically by loud snoring and episodes of choking spells during sleep (known as "apnea").

    

Normal Breathing                                  Apneic Breathing

The repeated choking attacks during sleep results in oxygen deprivation (known as "hypoxia"),which we now know to be associated with hypertension, diabetes mellitus, obesity, and also increases the risks of heart attacks as well as strokes.

People develop OSA as a results of many reasons, including weight gain, and having various features like short thick neck, big tongue, small jaw and airway, usage of cigarettes, alcohol or sleeping pills, having enlarged tonsils or poorly treated allergic rhinitis (commonly known as "sinus problem"), as all these may interfere with your breathing during sleep.

Of note, most Asians have a short chin and short neck (compared to a Caucasian), and OSA may be affecting more 10% of the population.

With repeated apneic dpisodes during sleep, OSA results in:

• Poor un-refreshing sleep, irrespective of the duration slept
• Increasing daytime sleepiness, like falling asleep during work/driving/watching TV
• Long term increased risk of heart attacks and strokes

This in turn results in poor day time performance at work or school, and OSA is also well known to cause poor performance in bed, as erectile dysfunction is also an associated feature.

OSA can only be diagnosed by a sleep study.

Traditional methods of doing sleep studies involve hospitalization for 1 day and hooking up the patient to a test machine be means of wires and clips. Significant time and costs were involved.

Now, new technology from Itamar Medical Ltd is available in Singapore.By means of a highly sophisticated watch pad computer, a sleep study can be performed in the comfort of the patient's own home, without any interfere to sleep at all.

   
Home Sleep Study                           Traditional hospital sleep study

Watch-PAT 100

The Cost of a home sleep study is S$500 only.The sleep technician brings teh watch pad down to the patient's home at the patient's usual bed time and puts on the watch pad.The entire process take about 10 to 15 minutes or so.

The patient sleeps throughout the study, and the next day, the patient can take off the watch pad and the technician will come by and pick up the watch pad from the patient or the maid or even from the security gate. The computerized technology ensures that all data relating to sleep are stored within the pad.

Think your spouse may require a sleep study? Feel free to visit our web site for more information, or call our Product Hotline at +65 92243839 for more information.