Sleep is an essential period of life, on which our well-being and health, regeneration of organs and tissues, quality of life, and increased longevity directly depend. To help solve health problems and sleep disorders, doctors-somnologists, who are engaged in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of various sleep disorders, conduct special sleep studies and identify sleep-related diseases.
It has already been proven that prolonged breathing stoppages during sleep (called sleep apnea) lead to a lack of oxygen in the body. This reduces the level of oxygen saturation of such vital organs as the brain and heart, which can cause cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, obesity and much more. With timely diagnosis and treatment, such problems can be avoided: prevent the emergence of a new disease, stabilize the exacerbation of a chronic disease, correct hormonal disorders leading to progressive obesity and impotence, eliminate daytime sleepiness and chronic fatigue, improve the quality of life.
On the basis of the therapeutic department with neurological beds, RKMC has a somnology room equipped with the most modern diagnostic and therapeutic equipment from the world's leading manufacturers. The sleep laboratory uses polysomnography to diagnose the following conditions:
- obstructive sleep apnea
- central sleep apnea
- nocturnal heart rhythm and BP abnormalities
- all kinds of insomnia
- sleeping pill addiction
- excessive daytime sleepiness and narcolepsy
- parasomnias: nightmares, sleepwalking and sleep-talking, bruxism (grinding of teeth in sleep)
- restless legs syndrome and periodic limb movements in sleep
- paroxysmal sleep disorder (sleep epileptic seizures)
- other sleep disorders
Read more about programs for the diagnosis and treatment of somatic disorders on the sleep lab page