You Deserve a Good Night's Sleep!

One out of three adults in the United States will have a sleeping problem this year. Many individuals accept chronic problems with sleeping and live in a state of fatigue, reducing their quality of life. They deal with daytime sleepiness, negative health effects, and increased risk of accidents. If a sleep problem is disturbing you, your spouse, or another family member, and if it has persisted for more than a month, it may be time to get help.

Help is available. At Lankenau's Sleep Medicine Center, which is fully accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, sleep specialists provide complete diagnosis and treatment services. Sleep Medicine Services is located at Lankenau Hospital in the Philadelphia suburbs and provides services for all types of sleep disorders for people of all ages.

You Should Contact Us If You:

• Fall asleep while driving, during social events, meetings, movies, or at other inappropriate times.
• Have sudden daytime sleep attacks.
• Snore loudly and awaken yourself or others with snores.
• Wake up gasping for breath.
• Breathe through the mouth while sleeping and frequently have dry mouth in the morning.
• Appear to stop breathing during sleep.
• Frequently awaken with a headache.
• Take longer than 30 minutes to fall asleep.
• Sleep less than six hours.
• Wake more than four times a night.
• Walk, talk, or scream during sleep.
• Have uncontrollable movements of the legs before or during sleep.

What to Expect:

Treatment begins with a daytime consultation with a Sleep Specialist who is board certified in Sleep Medicine. After the consultation, if needed, a staff member schedules a sleep study in our comfortable, relaxing facility, during the patients normal sleeping time.

During the sleep study sessions, technologists use non-invasive, state-of-the-art equipment to monitor a patient's heart, respiratory system, muscle activity, brain activity, oxygen level, body position, and sleep movements. Later, patients return to hear treatment recommendations.

Sleep Medicine Services at Lankenau Hospital serves patients of all ages from all over the Philadelphia area.

The Staff:

Physicians associated with the Sleep Medicine Services at Lankenau have broad experience in sleep medicine, including national recognition in the field, and authorship of books and articles on the subject. All are faculty members at Philadelphia area medical schools, and most are certified by the American Board of Sleep Medicine.

More About Sleep Medicine Services at Lankenau Hospital...

	Common Sleep Disorders Although highly treatable, sleep disorders are often ignored or not diagnosed for years, eroding quality of life, contributing to depression, and increasing the risk for disease and injury. Lankenau's Sleep Medicine Services provide diagnostic and treatment services for insomnia, narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea and other common sleep problems. More Info!
	Diagnostic Sleep Studies If you have a sleep disorder, your physician may schedule you for a diagnostic all-night sleep recording or polysomnography (sometimes called a PSG) at our facilities. Get answers to common questions about sleep laboratories and studies. More Info!

Sleep Medicine Services are also available at the Main Line Health Center - Lawrence Park in Broomall, PA. Learn More!

Learn More...

For additional reading on sleep disorders and for helpful hints on how to improve your sleeping habits, check out the following articles:

• Tips for Getting a Good Night Sleep
• Why Teens Need More Sleep Than They're Getting
• Sleep: Are You Getting Enough?

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