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Catching Zs In Our Sleep Labs
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The state-of-the-art sleep lab on Hartford Hospital's eleventh floor accommodates up to six patients nightly in recently updated rooms with wood-trimmed furnishings and amenities like flat-screen TVs. (The new Bloomfield location can accommodate up to four a night.)
Here, high-tech wizardry allows physicians to monitor exactly what happens while the patient sleeps.
Both Hartford Hospital sleep labs are open seven nights a week. Patients arrive by 7:30 or 8:00 p.m. so they can relax with graham cracker snacks and get used to the monitoring equipment before falling asleep.
While the subject sleeps, multiple wires, or “leads,” monitor brain waves, rapid eye movement (REM), respiratory flow and rate, muscle activity, heart rate, blood pressure, blood oxygen levels and snoring. A dozen leads are attached to the head and face, while additional sets run from the legs to the computer to detect any twitching or jerking that can signal a condition called “periodic limb movement disorder.”
A highly trained sleep technologist stays in the sleep lab overnight to monitor the video recording and help hooked-up patients to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
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