What is Sleep Apnea

Sleep apnea is serious sleep disorder where breathing stops and restarts repeatedly while sleeping. These breathing interruptions can happen hundred times an hour, depriving the brain and body of much-needed oxygen. If left untreated sleep apnea can intrude on daily activities. You feel sluggish when you are at work. If you are a student, your school performance can suffer greatly from your fatigue. exacerbate or cause related illnesses. Uncontrolled sleep apnea can lead to heart issues such as irregular heartbeats and heart attacks. Chronic fatigue can be the cause headaches, stroke, and depression.

Treating Sleep Apnea is Crucial

If the patient is becoming routinely exhausted or snores frequently, then a test should most definitely be performed. Testing for sleep apnea is often done in a lab setting. During your night at the lab, you are hooked up to equipment that monitors your heart, lung, and brain activity. Also monitored are your breathing patterns, movements, and oxygen levels in your blood.

Testing Can Be Done Completely At Home

Not as well know is the home test for sleep apnea. Patients often find sleeping in unfamiliar places to be difficult, not to mention when they are being monitored by a physician while being hooked up to machines. Sometimes other conditions such as anxiety limit the patient’s ability to do a conventional sleep study. Another problem is that some patients either cannot afford or simply do not want to submit to a conventional sleep study. The home sleep apnea test, however, can help the medical professional to work around this limitation.

The test can be done at your convenience and in the comfort of your own bed. The home test for sleep apnea monitors multiple factors such as breathing patterns, your movements, your brain activity, and how often your apnea occurs. At home testing is about a third of the cost of traditional in-lab sleep studies and is covered by a lot of the insurance companies thus benefitting the patient by costing less in monetary value as well as saving time and being convenient.

VirtuOx Has Several Ways to Test

VirtuOx offers three different types of equipment for your home sleep apnea test. The ApneaLink Air records five different channels of information, respiratory effort, pulse, oxygen saturation, nasal flow, and snoring. This will provide all of the information your physician needs to diagnose your sleep apnea and start working on a treatment plan. The Alice NightOne Home Sleep Testing device is designed to help you get your study done right the first night. It has 3 sensors (effort belt, cannula, and oximeter) as well as a built-in body position sensor that provide seven channels of data (body position, pressure flow, snore, respiratory effort, Sp02, pleth pulse rate).The Alice NightOne home sleep testing device starts recording as soon as the belt is clicked into place, thus you do not need to worry about pushing any start buttons. The WatchPat is an FDA approved a portable diagnostic device that simplifies the application of Sleep Apnea testing. It uses finger based physiology and innovative technology to provide the data needed to diagnose and treat sleep apnea without all of the discomfort and restriction of more traditional home sleep apnea tests.

Get Your Sleep Test at Home

No waiting for appointments, no traveling to a lab, you will be on your way to treat and manage all of your symptoms in no time. As your symptoms improve so will your quality of life. Your work and school performances will boost your energy returns. You will feel healthier and safer as you no longer live your life in a fog of sleepiness. All it takes to achieve this is to do a simple diagnostic sleep apnea test in the comfort of your own home. Regardless of which type of equipment you choose for your diagnostic tests, you can be reassured that VirtuOx has one to suit your needs. Whether you need a minimal test that keeps you relatively unbound in the night or you need a test that provides air flow in the night, VirtuOx has a reliable, affordable option for you.