Saint Vincent Hospital Expands Sleep Lab with New Technologies in the Wake of COVID-19 Sleep Deprivation
Oct 30, 2020To help combat coronasomnia, Saint Vincent Hospital is expanding its sleep lab with new home sleep testing technology from Itamar Medical. This new technology is an addition to Saint Vincent Hospital’s already existing home sleep services and will allow more patients to have their sleep studies in the comfort of their own homes. The WatchPATTM series of diagnostic Home Sleep Testing (HSAT) enables patients to easily perform a sleep study in the comfort of their own home. The technology provides sleep physicians and cardiologists the additional capacity to identify, evaluate, and treat sleep disorders found inherent in a significant population of atrial fibrillation and heart failure patients.
While Saint Vincent Hospital has been performing comprehensive services for sleep disorders, expanding the lab with this new technology enables the team to recognize and address the clinical correlation between sleep disorders and cardiac disease. This will assist with proactively diagnosing and treating patients in a timely manner.