Sleep is essential to your well-being. Your happiness, safety, critical thinking, and physical health all depend on a regular, uninterrupted, and adequate daily sleep.
What are the biggest sleep stealers?
- Psychological Factors
- Lifestyle Stresses
- Shift Work
- Environmental Inference
- Physical Factors
- Medications
Your physician is your best source if sleeping problems persist for more than a week, or if your sleepiness interferes with how you feel or function during the day. In many cases, your doctor may suggest lifestyle changes that can help promote sleep. But lifestyle changes alone may not be enough. Your doctor may recommend over-the-counter or prescription medications that can offer short-term relief from lack of rest. Your doctor may also recommend that you undergo a diagnostic sleep study.
The Fairview Range Sleep Center in Hibbing is a full-service sleep center for adults and pediatrics that offers comprehensive overnight and daytime testing, as well as longer duration sleep recording for insomnia.
Are you a candidate for a sleep study?
Patients with complaints of excessive day-time sleepiness (EDS), tiredness, and symptoms or signs of obstructive sleep apnea should be referred for a sleep study.
Common symptoms and signs of obstructive sleep apnea include:
- Daytime sleepiness
- Snoring
- Witnessed apneas
- Obesity
- Hypertension
- Large neck (Male > 17” /Female > 16’’)
- Shallow/narrow posterior oropharynx
- Morning headaches
- Depressed mood
- Snoring, gasping, choking during sleep
Fairview Range provides comprehensive diagnostic sleep studies that monitor the amount and quality of your sleep and help detect potential sleep disorders.
What types of sleep tests does Fairview Range offer?
Four of the most common types of sleep testing offered are:
- In-Lab Overnight Sleep Study: This test is conducted at the lab where patients stay overnight. About 20-30 stickers and leads are placed around the body. Data, such as heart rate, brain waves, muscle movements, oxygen saturation and more, is collected as the patient sleeps. Mid-way through the night, the sleep technician may put the patient on oxygen, CPAP or other therapies to help improve breathing, brain waves and or other findings that may be abnormal in relation to normal sleep patterns.
- T3 Home Sleep Test: With this test, you take the portable respiratory sleep monitor kit home, wear it for a night and then return to the sleep center. The team will then analyze the collected data and determine a plan to address any abnormal findings.
- WatchPat Home Sleep Test: This is a single-use, disposable test you do at home that is connected to an application on your smartphone. Data from the probe you wear on your finger is transmitted to the techs in the sleep center and a report is generated for the physician to review. Once you’re done with the test you can discard it. No need to return to the sleep center.
- Actigraph: A watch-like device worn for two weeks that helps to get a very detailed picture of your sleep and wake pattern.
Will insurance cover a sleep test?
Typically, insurance will cover all or a portion of a sleep test, but we recommend you check with your insurance company first before making an appointment.
Can kids have sleep disorders?
Yes, many of the patients that come to the Fairview Range Sleep Center are young kids. Identifying and treating a sleep disorder early can help your child develop lifestyle changes that can vastly improve their sleeping patterns throughout their life. Most kids can be tested at our Hibbing Sleep Center, but more complex cases may require a visit to our partner clinic at the M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. Dr. Gustafson also works at that location, so he can still read the information and follow-up with your child.
For a referral
Talk to your provider if you think you might benefit from better sleep.
For more information, please reach out to the Fairview Range Sleep Center at 218-362-6558.
