SLEEP MEDICINE CENTER

Director: Dr Fabio Marchioretto
Head: Dr Gianluca Rossato

ABOUT US

The Sleep Medicine Center (accredited center for AISM – Italian Multiple Sclerosis Association) deals with diagnosis, treatment and follow up of all adult sleep diseases  and instrumental diagnosis of child obstructive apneas.
It includes three clinics:

  • Sleep Medicine clinic
  • Sleep Disorders clinic
  • C-PAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure) and Bi-PAP (Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure) control clinic

WHERE

  • Second floor Ospedale Sacro Cuore – Entrance F (Neurology Department)
    → Clinic 1: Home cardiopulmonary polysomnography/Bloodless monitoring of arterial saturation (pulse oximetry)
    → Clinic 3: continuous monitoring of sleep-wake cycle
    → Clinic 3 and 7: C-PAP and Bi-PAP control of positive and intermittent -pressure respiration
  • Ground floor – Hospital main entrance
    → Check-in and Ticket Office
CONTACTS

EXAMINATION AND TEST BOOKING

ACTIVITY

The diagnostic and therapeutic activity of Sleep Medicine Center follows the most recent Italian and international guidelines and collaborates with other specialists (pneumologists, otorhinolaryngologists, bariatric surgeons and dental surgeons) for some pathologies, as the sleep obstructive apneas, in a complete and multidisciplinary approach.

The Center carries out any test concerning the Sleep Medicine both for respiratory sleep disorders and forms of hypersomnia or sleep movement disorders. The most frequent sleep disorders are sleep respiratory disorders and snoring, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), restless legs syndrome (RLS), parasomnias, narcolepsy, excessive diurnal sleepiness. The following tests are carried out:

  • Night and monitored video-polysomnography
  • Cardiopulmonary polysomnography
  • Night pulse oximetry
  • Actigraphy
  • Training and titration of ventilation therapy CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, positive-pressure mechanical ventilation of airways) or BiPAP (Bi-level Positive Airway Pressure, Intermittent positive-pressure ventilation)
  • Patient’s weaning care from intensive mechanics to ventilation
  • Multiple Sleep Latency Test (MSLT)
  • Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT)
  • Qualifying certification for the medicolegal evaluation by medical commission of licenses of for work purposes
DOSAGE OF MELATONIN

The Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory carries out for a fee the dosage of melatonin. The general practitioner or specialist can indicate the dosage of melatonin within a diagnostic pathway in order to investigate sleep disorders related to impairments of circadian rhythm while awake and while asleep. This test is considered a valid and reliable parameter for diagnosis of following diseases: delayed or advanced sleep phase syndrome, sleep disorders of shift workers, jet lag, irregular sleep-wakefulness or not-24H rhythm. It may help to define or analyze the insomnia (mainly after the age of 55) or sleep disorders during neurodegenerative diseases.

MELATONIN BROCHURE
TO LEARN MORE
What is the syndrome of sleep apneas