Accredited by the American Academy of Sleep
Medicine for Providing Diagnostic and Treatment
Service for the FULL Range of Sleep Disorders
Accepting
Most Private Insurances
Medicare/Medicaid
MasterCard/Visa
Board-Certification
Pulmonary
Disease
Sleep
Medicine
Critical Care
Echocardiology
In
House Services
Pulmonary Function Test
CardioPulmonary Stress Test
Sleep
Studies
Overnight Polysomnograms
MSLT and MWT
Insomnia Clinic
Equipment
Pulmonary & Sleep Center of the Valley uses new
state of the art Pulmonary and Sleep equipment.
Below you can find out more about the devices we
use to help us help you breath easier and sleep
better!
This medical device performs
Pulmonary Function Tests. Pulmonary
Function Tests are a broad range of
tests that are usually done in a health
care provider's office or a specialized
facility. They measure how well the
lungs take in and exhale air and how
efficiently they transfer oxygen into
the blood.
Spirometry measures how well the
lungs exhale. The information gathered
during this test is useful in diagnosing
certain types of lung disorders, but is
most useful when assessing for
obstructive lung diseases (especially
asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, COPD).
Lung volume measurement permits the
detection of restrictive lung diseases.
In this set of diseases, a person cannot
inhale a normal volume of air.
Restrictive lung diseases may be caused
by inflammation or scarring of the lung
tissue (interstitial lung disease) or by
abnormalities of the muscles or skeleton
of the chest wall.
Testing the diffusion capacity (also
called the DLCO) permits an estimate of
how efficiently the lungs are able to
transfer oxygen from the air into the
bloodstream.
Sleep Lab
These medical devices are used to
perform our sleep studies. A test of
sleep cycles and stages through the use
of continuous recordings of brain waves
(EEG), electrical activity of muscles,
eye movement (electrooculogram),
respiratory rate, blood pressure, blood
oxygen saturation, and heart rhythm and
direct observation of the person during
sleep.
There are 2 states of sleep:
non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep and
rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. REM
sleep is associated with dreaming and
generalized muscle paralysis sparing the
eye muscles and diaphragm. NREM sleep
has 4 stages distinguishable by EEG
waves. REM sleep alternates with NREM
sleep approximately every 90 minutes. A
person with normal sleep usually has 4
to 5 cycles of REM and NREM sleep during
a night.
Bi-level Positive Airway
Pressure (BIPAP) device
This
medical device is used to treat sleep
apnea, and other sleep related breathing
disorders; Delivers alternating levels
of inspiratory pressure (IPAP), or
higher pressure, to keep the airway open
as a patient breathes in, and the
expiratory pressure (EPAP) is lower to
reduce the work of exhaling; the BiPAP
can be set to drop the level at specific
intervals, or upon demand
This
medical device delivers a steady, gentle
flow of air delivered through a soft,
pliable nasal mask worn over the nose;
Used to ‘splint’ open a person’s airway
during sleep; CPAP is the most effective
treatment available for Obstructive
Sleep Apnea
