Sleep & Wellness Medical Associates has recently outlined useful tips for peaceful and good night’s sleep.These tips and guidelines are addressed to everyone irrespective of male or female and age group.
The average adult needs eight hours of sleep per night; the average teenager, nine hours.
Sleepiness during the daytime is a good predictor of sleep deprivation.
Maintaining a regular bedtime and wake-up time is crucial to stable sleep patterns. Even on weekends, sleep and rise at the same times. Read the rest of this entry
The report provides value (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each segment and sub-segment within six market categories – anesthesia disposables, anesthesia machines, respiratory devices, respiratory disposables, respiratory measurement devices, and sleep apnea diagnostic systems. Read the rest of this entry
[Press Release]-A local resident of Honolulu is amazed at the healthy results she obtained by simply practicing an innovative breathing technique called Buteyko. She has reduced her Asthma symptoms by as much as 85% and feels so much better. Her health history is typical of severe Asthmatics, she ended up at the emergency room every few months and found her symptoms hard to manage. Read the rest of this entry
Buteyko Breathing is a comprehensive approach to living with a core set of breathing exercises that reverses hyperventilation or over-breathing. The idea is to return the breathing volume back to normal at around 5 liters of air/minute. According to their instructor, Greg Baker, CBE (Certified Buteyko Educator) of Buteyko Learning Company says the impacts on the body of over-breathing is quite similar to over-eating. When we eat more calories than our body needs it causes us to gain weight. The impact to the body is extensive with heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. It is the same with over-breathing or hyperventilation. Read the rest of this entry
Citizens in Redwood City CA. have found a wonderful alternative treatment to assist them in managing their health. It is called Buteyko Breathing. Each of these residents found relief from their symptoms of Asthma, Allergies, Snoring and Sleep Apnea.
In the beginning they were both hopeful and quite skeptical. In fact, one student was learning Buteyko only because her mother had requested she do so.The results each citizen experienced more than met their expectations.
One who struggled for years with Asthma reports she no longer struggles to breathe and was able to get off medications entirely. Another stopped Snoring and stopped getting kicked out of bed by his girlfriend making them both happy. Read the rest of this entry
The Sleep Center at Phelps Memorial Hospital , New York was recently fully accredited as a sleep center by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. To be accredited, a sleep medicine provider must demonstrate compliance in areas such as patient safety and follow-up, testing procedures and policies, physician and staff training, and facility and equipment. Read the rest of this entry
There is a new home based device that can be potentially used for monitoring health issues – such as sleep apnea at home.
With this new device a patient’s vital signs are typically taken once every four to eight hours. The cuff works overtime, measuring a patient’s blood oxygen levels, heart rhythm and rate, respiration and blood pressure, every 60 seconds. The data is sent wirelessly to a central computer. If something goes wrong, an alert sounds. Read the rest of this entry
Long term chronic illness like sleep apnea can affect a person’s mental health as well as physical health.
Chronic illness is long term, and may never go away; sometime there is no perceivable cause for the illness. Conversely, a person with a chronic illness never regains a baseline of normal functioning.
Acute illness is what we experience when we do something like catch a cold or have bronchitis.
Sleep apnea is one of the most Common chronic illnesses aprt from arthritis, auto-immune disorders (Hashimoto’s Disease, Graves Disease), asthma, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, lupus, and severe joint and back problems. Read the rest of this entry
Medical device report, “The Future of Anesthesia and Respiratory Devices, Competitive Landscape and Forecasts to 2016 – Home and Self Care Respiratory Devices Presenting Growth Avenues” provides key data, information and analysis on the global anesthesia and respiratory devices market. Read the rest of this entry
Under the watchful eye of Philips Respironics staffer Juli Lewis, Nickolas Kubit and Nolan Johngarlo
[Media Release]-On Saturday, June 5, nearly 500 Philips Respironics employees, volunteers, family and friends gathered together to experience the new manufacturing facility at an activity-packed open house.
The venue was the Philips Respironics Manufacturing Facility, Westmoreland Business and Research Park, Upper Burrell, PA
The 172,000-square-foot LEED-certified building is a model for manufacturing and workplace excellence. Opened in 2009, the state-of-the-art facility is devoted to high volume production of sleep therapy systems. Philips Respironics also operates a second plant at its main campus in Murrysville.
The activities of the day satisfied the whims of curious hands-on types to music-loving Guitar Hero fanatics. Events included guided plant tours, product demonstrations, a mock production line where children and adults alike could build a sleep therapy (CPAP) device, face painting and balloon art, X-Box Beatles Guitar Hero, exciting giveaways and a delicious picnic lunch. More than 60 employees volunteered their time and talents for the day. Read the rest of this entry
If you have the disorder, you’re not breathing properly while you sleep because your airflow is blocked repeatedly throughout the night. Nearly one in four men and one in ten women suffer from it. (There are a couple of other varieties, but OSA is the most common.) And it goes hand-in-hand with type 2 diabetes. In a survey on the subject, Gary D. Foster, PhD, wrote that, “among all of the sleep disorders, OSA has the strongest association with type 2 diabetes.” That’s even taking into account other risk factors, such as weight, sex and age.
The main risk factor for OSA is obesity. “Excess weight deposits extra fat around the thorax, reducing chest compliance and functional capacity, while increasing oxygen demand,” wrote Foster, a professor of medicine and public health and the Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University. Read the rest of this entry
Snoring is an occasional occurrence that may happen during all ages and stages of life. Snoring is due to the vibrations that cause particles in the air to form sound waves. Hence snoring is a sound caused from turbulent airflow which causes tissues to vibrate during sleep.
Habitual loud snoring is the most common symptom of breathing disorders that occur during sleep. The person who snores not only sleeps restlessly, but also is at risk for serious disorders of the heart and lungs. Snoring can therefore be lifethreatening because it can lead to high blood pressure, irregular heart beats, heart attacks, and sudden death.
Northern Dutchess Hospital in Rhinebeck announced its Sleep Center was recently accredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine for a period of five years.
The center takes a team approach to help patients sleep better at night.
It is equipped to measure a patient’s brain waves, breathing patterns and heartbeat while sleeping to determine the incidence of disorders, such as sleep apnea and narcolepsy.
If you are sleepless and in southern Utah, you may want to visit the Intermountain Dixie Regional Sleep Disorders Center recently reaccredited by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. Accreditation requires a rigorous evaluation and inspection process to insure that a sleep center meets the highest standards of excellence in proficient care. Many insurance plans require their patients to be seen at accredited center.
Dr. Kirk Watkins, board-certified in Sleep Medicine, and Mark Boyer, nurse practitioner, have a knowledgeable staff and more than a decade of expertise in sleep medicine. Read the rest of this entry
GlobalData’s medical equipment report, “Spain Anesthesia and Respiratory Devices Market Outlook to 2016″ provides key market data on the Spain anesthesia and respiratory devices market. The report provides value (USD million), volume (units) and average price (USD) data for each segment and sub-segment within six market categories – anesthesia disposables, anesthesia machines, respiratory devices, respiratory disposables, respiratory measurement devices, and sleep apnea diagnostic systems. The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for each of the aforementioned market categories. The report is supplemented with global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants with information on company financials and pipeline products, wherever available.
This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by GlobalData’s team of industry experts.
