Has anyone heard of LifeWatch?
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BleepingBeauty
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Has anyone heard of LifeWatch?
My dad's scheduled to have a home sleep study tomorrow night. I got a call on Friday from this company (located in Chicago) that's sending the equipment to us and just wondered if anyone here has heard of them or has had a sleep study done through them at home. Hope they're reputable... Their turnaround time for results is pretty good (48-72 hours after they get the equipment back from us). I'll be hounding Dad's doctor's office for a copy next week.
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Dx 11/07: AHI 107, central apnea, Cheyne Stokes respiration, moderate-severe O2 desats. (Simple OSA would be too easy.
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Dx 11/07: AHI 107, central apnea, Cheyne Stokes respiration, moderate-severe O2 desats. (Simple OSA would be too easy.
)PR S1 ASV 950, DreamWear mask, F&P 150 humidifier, O2 @ 2L.
Re: Has anyone heard of LifeWatch?
Take notes and pictures of all the equipment and report back.
Home sleep tests have the advantage of convenience and sleeping in your own bed. Far too often, in a sleep lab, you end up wasting your money because you don't sleep due to the poor environment, different bed, and being on the wrong sleep schedule.
Equipment for home sleep tests varies from pretty good to near quackery. They're never as good as a good in-lab sleep test, assuming you sleep well in the lab.
Googling for Lifewatch showed some info on the company. It looks like a "real" company with "real" equipment. Nothing particularly good or bad stood out to me.
It's probably too late now, but I think that the doctor should always prescribe a sleeping pill for every sleep test, to be taken in case you can't get to sleep. You'd rather have the test without drugs, but lots of apnea patients go untreated because they took a horrible sleep test where they didn't sleep, got no data, got a big bill, and then they gave up on the whole process.
Home sleep tests have the advantage of convenience and sleeping in your own bed. Far too often, in a sleep lab, you end up wasting your money because you don't sleep due to the poor environment, different bed, and being on the wrong sleep schedule.
Equipment for home sleep tests varies from pretty good to near quackery. They're never as good as a good in-lab sleep test, assuming you sleep well in the lab.
Googling for Lifewatch showed some info on the company. It looks like a "real" company with "real" equipment. Nothing particularly good or bad stood out to me.
It's probably too late now, but I think that the doctor should always prescribe a sleeping pill for every sleep test, to be taken in case you can't get to sleep. You'd rather have the test without drugs, but lots of apnea patients go untreated because they took a horrible sleep test where they didn't sleep, got no data, got a big bill, and then they gave up on the whole process.
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