Tampa Sleep Apnea

Tampa sleep apnea patients have many choices of sleep physicians, sleep centers and sleep technicians. Finding convenient help is especially important if you plan to participate in an overnight sleep study. It is also important to find sleep professionals and a sleep center in which you feel comfortable.

Tampa sleep apnea centers help with CPAP masks.

Your personal physician may recommend that you make an appointment with a sleep physician if you are having trouble sleeping. After a diagnostic exam, the sleep physician will probably recommend that you participate in an overnight sleep study at a local sleep center.

There are many sleep centers in the Tampa area, including in the Tampa Bay and St. Petersburg areas. All of these centers are staffed with experienced sleep physicians and have bedroom facilities in which you can sleep overnight while being monitored by a sleep technologist.

The differences between the centers are the types of services offered. Some centers offer basic sleep facilities in a clinical atmosphere while others offer more luxurious bedroom facilities and a broad range of educational and support opportunities for their patients.

In the city of Tampa, there are over ten sleep centers staffed and equipped to help the sleep apnea patient select the best CPAP machine for their needs or an alternative sleep apnea treatment. Here is information on a few of the larger centers:

This Tampa sleep center has two Centers with one located in the Hyde Park area of South Tampa. The Centers are staffed by a team of physicians and technicians who have many years of experience working with local physicians and patients in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders.

The physicians are Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Sleep Medicine, Critical Care and Pulmonology. Having this wide range of specialties allows the professionals to treat the sleeping disorder and respond to a wide range of health issues that are often associated with sleep disorders including difficulty breathing, fatigue, snoring and restless sleep.

New patients are asked to complete a questionnaire with questions about their general health and their specific sleeping problems. After meeting with a physician at the Center, each patient is given an overnight sleep study to compile additional data for the initial diagnosis.

The Center is set up with private bedrooms for sleep studies. Each bedroom is furnished for the comfort of the patient with a television, ceiling fan, lamps and reading material.

If sleep apnea is diagnosed during the sleep study, the patient will have a second overnight sleep study during which a technician will try alternative pressures to determine the best pressure to stop the patient's apneas. The technician will also work with the patient to make sure that the patient has the proper CPAP machine and CPAP mask.

The Center is located at:

• 2111 West Swann Avenue, Suite 101
• Tampa, Florida 33606
• (813) 251-2525

SomnoMedics Sleep Medicine Professionals provides patients and their physicians with both sleep testing and sleep disorder treatment.

They have ten sleep lab locations throughout central Florida with labs in both North Tampa and South Tampa.

Each sleep study bedroom is furnished with a queen size bed and a cable television.

The Center is frequently involved in clinical trials and actively solicits patients as participants. For example, recent studies have included:

• Pain after Shingles
• Sleep Apnea and Depression
• Insomnia

Their Tampa Centers are located at:

• 4231 North Habana Avenue (South Tampa)
• Tampa, Florida 33607
• (800) 797-7533 extension 132

and at:

• 16112 North Florida Avenue (North Tampa)
• Lutz, Florida 33549
• (800) 797-7533 extension 130

The Sleep Center at University Community Health is the first Sleep Center in the Tampa Bay area to be accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

The Center provides private rooms for sleep studies including:

• Polysomnography Test – A monitored, overnight test during which the patient's sleep is analyzed to evaluate sleep disturbances such as sleep apnea and sleep-related breathing problems.
• Multiple Sleep Latency Test – A ten-hour test during which the patient is asked to take a series of naps every two hours and then stay awake between the naps.
• Maintenance of Wakefulness Test – A monitored test where the patient is placed in a darkened room every two hours and asked to stay awake for 30 minutes.

A patient's physician will make a referral to the hospital which is located at:

• 2919 West Swann Avenue, Suite 202
• Tampa, Florida 33609
• (813) 879-7726

The first step for in solving a sleep apnea problem is an accurate diagnosis and customized treatment. The patient's physician may specifically recommend a Tampa sleep apnea sleep center or they may provide the patient with a list of alternative locations. A call to the sleep center, or a quick check of the Center's Internet site, will give the patient detailed information about their facilities, patient support and educational opportunities.

The center should be geographically convenient and have the level of services required by the patient. A patient can always ask their doctor for recommendations for sleep centers outside of Tampa in the greater Tampa Bay Area.

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