Preparing for Your Sleep Study
At the time of your Sleep Clinic visit at CommunityHealth your provider will add your name to our sleep testing wait list. While we always aim to get you tested as quickly as possible, please be aware that there may be a wait time of several weeks between your clinic visit and when you do your sleep study. Once we reach your name on our wait list we will prepare a testing device specifically for you, and you will receive a call from a CommunityHealth nurse letting you know that the device is ready for pickup at the CommunityHealth front desk (2611 W Chicago Ave).
We kindly request that you return the device to the ComunityHealth front desk within 1 week of picking it up.
The Night of Your Study
Once you pick up the testing device you can do the sleep study the same night.
If you usually take medication to help you sleep, you should continue taking it the night of your sleep study.
Following the instructions in the video below, put the device on, making sure the finger probe is all the way on your index finger, the wrist band is comfortably strapped to your wrist, and the chest wall monitor is taped (or stuck on with a band-aid) to the front of your chest.
Once you're wearing the device, press the power button at the center of the touch pad. The screen should light up with text that first reads "Itamar Medical" and then "Good Night"
At that point, you can go to sleep.
In the morning, simply take off the testing device (including finger probe and chest monitor). Please note that you cannot turn off the device. All you have to do is put the device, finger probe, and chest monitor back in the carrying case, and return it to the CommunityHealth front desk.