Looking for sites where sleep techs hangout

Does any body know of any websites where sleep techs hangout and exchange advice with each other?

Seems to be a popular request tonight.

http://www.binarysleep.com/phpbb2/index.php?c=10

borgready wrote:Looking for . . . where sleep techs hangout

Cruise the streets near a large hospital and look for a cheap bar with a 10:00 a.m. happy hour.

jnk wrote:

borgready wrote:Looking for . . . where sleep techs hangout

Cruise the streets near a large hospital and look for a cheap bar with a 10:00 a.m. happy hour.

Hahahaha!

hahahahahahahaha,
very nice posts guys...

My opinion about cpap users visiting a forum for sleep techs:
viewtopic.php?p=529674#p529674

I wrote: I'm sorry to see calist suggesting that cpap users ask questions over at binarysleep.com.

I've lurk-read binarysleep for many years, but I've never posted even once there...and never will. I regard binarysleep as a place just for sleep professionals to post in. I don't think it's a forum for cpap users to ask questions in or make comments in. It's an interesting board to read, but it's not a forum intended for user support.

I don't think calist is doing either binarysleep or the members of cpaptalk a service when he tries to encourage people here to ask "sleep questions" over at binarysleep. I don't believe the members of binarysleep would appreciate one bit his suggesting that cpap users... "patients"... start coming in there to post "sleep questions."

One specific part of binarysleep.com's disclaimer is what makes me -- as a cpap user, not someone working in "sleep medicine" -- respect their sandbox and not ask any questions there:
"THIS SITE IS DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO WORK IN SLEEP MEDICINE"

I would encourage people here to leave binarysleep in peace. Read it if you wish (I do, occasionally) but I don't think it would be productive at all for cpap users ("patients") to post questions or comments there.

jnk wrote:

borgready wrote:Looking for . . . where sleep techs hangout

Cruise the streets near a large hospital and look for a cheap bar with a 10:00 a.m. happy hour.

Jeff I like the way you think.

A few weeks ago I posted here in this forum this post which I have located at the BinarySleep forum, where the Techs post. I was expecting comments b/c the author Ted the Sleep guy is a moderator over there and also a clinician. Amongst the responder here was Rested Gal who posted here that she was "not impressed by Ted's post from 2009".

jnk wrote:

borgready wrote:Looking for . . . where sleep techs hangout

Cruise the streets near a large hospital and look for a cheap bar with a 10:00 a.m. happy hour.

That's a punchline if I ever heard one!

avi123 wrote: . . . NOT IMPRESSED by this post. . . .

I wouldn't want Teddy titrating me, if I needed ASV. Some techs don't know what the tech they're talking about.

jnk wrote:

avi123 wrote: . . . NOT IMPRESSED by this post. . . .

I wouldn't want Teddy titrating me, if I needed ASV. Some techs don't know what the tech they're talking about.

Or what the tech they doin
ex. viewtopic/t48958/26year-Old-Man-Dies-Du ... Study.html

avi123 wrote:Here is a post from the BinarySleep forum which was posted there by a Moderator (a clinician). Rested Gal responded that she is NOT IMPRESSED by this post. How about you?

And that has what to do with what I've said in this thread?

Your comment above makes it sound like I posted a response in that other forum.

To put your current comment in context, here's where my "not impressed" post appeared in cpaptalk:

viewtopic.php?p=606493#p606493

Funny thing is -- back in that old thread I've linked, avi123 chose to edit out his screenshot of the binary post... the screenshot he copies yet again ( ) here. Talk about confusing.... oh well.

"Or what the tech they doin"


My tech gets so nervous when I ask her questions. She does what she has to do so I won't call the sleep specialist doc and complain. She acts like she knows nothin (perhaps true), and always suggests that I call my doctor - my internist.

I wonder what type of schooling these techs have to have??

ems wrote:"Or what the tech they doin"


My tech gets so nervous when I ask her questions. She does what she has to do so I won't call the sleep specialist doc and complain. She acts like she knows nothin (perhaps true), and always suggests that I call my doctor - my internist.

I wonder what type of schooling these techs have to have??

As a general rule, as I understand it, techs are mostly just trained to test. RTs are trained to supervise therapy. So I wouldn't ask a tech for advice beyond, maybe, how to navigate the sleep-industry system, UNLESS that tech also happened to be an RT. Even then, a tech/RT who gives info to a patient that isn't in harmony with what the sleep doc or lab manager wants the patient to know is risking his or her job to pass on information. Even the RTs at DMEs tend to be closed-lipped, since they can't keep up with all the silly things each sleep doc believes. That is one reason I so deeply respect the techs and RTs who still manage to find ways to be of extra help to patients.

Imagine, for example, that a particular sleep doc foolishly doesn't believe in autos or in patients seeing data (since a few of his patients have become obsessed in an unhealthy way about the data). Now imagine one of the doc's patients calling him up to explain how the RT at his DME was singing the praises of autos with data. Then imagine that RT getting chewed up and spit out over the phone by that angy sleep doc calling the RT an idiot and saying he'll make sure none of his patients end up there. An RPSGT would be in even MORE trouble.

Life is hard for us patients, but it isn't always a picnic for the other people having contact with sleep docs who are behind the times either.

In my opinion.

ems wrote:"Or what the tech they doin"


My tech gets so nervous when I ask her questions. She does what she has to do so I won't call the sleep specialist doc and complain. She acts like she knows nothin (perhaps true), and always suggests that I call my doctor - my internist.

I wonder what type of schooling these techs have to have??

You have to look at our medical system as the medical mafia. Even if she's qualified, the poor sleep tech has to be careful not to step on the toes of the made man's (doctor's) territory, or she may be sleepin with the fishes. The doctor wants to charge patients for as many office visits as possible, so nobody else better give out any info when he could charge the patient for a visit in order to get an answer.

Yes, some individuals are caring and honest. The system as a whole is corrupt and set up to benefit the medical mafia, not the patients.

I also suspect a lot of sleep centers recruit just anyone they can to run sleep studies, give them just enough training to pass certification and sit back and cash the checks. You should read some of the complaints on binarysleep about unqualified technicians.

Actual schooling and testing requirements have been increasing over time. It varies from state to state and sleep center to sleep center. There are various ways of getting around some of the requirements. It's discussed quite a bit on the binarysleep board.