Sleep Disorders Center
Help to Improve Quality of Sleeping and Waking Hours
Lahey Medical Center, Peabody
One Essex Center Drive
Peabody, MA 01960
978.538.4000
According to recent estimates, millions of Americans suffer from
one or more types of sleep disorder, ranging from difficulty with
falling asleep and/or staying asleep to excessive daytime
drowsiness. Most people are not aware that these disorders
can create or aggravate serious medical problems, affect one's
productivity, and generally depress one's outlook on and
quality of life.
The Sleep Disorders Center, at the Lahey Medical Center,
Peabody, responds to the needs of patients with sleep disorders,
their families and their physicians. The Center uses a
multidisciplinary approach, along with the referring physician, to
treat and improve the quality of both sleeping and waking
hours.
As part of the sleep disorder evaluation, the individual
undergoes a sleep study (Polysomnography) in which a
Polysomnographic technologist monitors the individual through the
entire sleep period. The patient sleeps in a home-like
bedroom setting while the technologist monitors the patient from an
adjacent room.
The Center has state-of-the-art medical equipment, along with a
specially trained and qualified staff, available to assist in the
proper diagnosis and treatment of assorted sleep disorders.
The Center has joined with SleepMed, a national leader in
sleep and EEG diagnostic services and a major provider of therapy
devices to sleep patients.
A referral to the Sleep Disorders Center includes a complete
evaluation for many signs and symptoms that may include excessive
sleepiness, loud snoring, hypertension, obesity and unusual
behaviors during sleep.
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has a
booklet on their Web site that explains the latest science-based
information about sleep, common sleep myths, coping with jet lag
and much more. To download your copy, click here to navigate to the NHLBI Web
site.
