Sleep Disorders Exploration and Treatment Unit

Its main mission is the management of sleep disorders in adults and children: consultations, investigations and treatments.

• specialist consultations (pulmonology, neurology, psychiatry, pediatrics, neuropediatrics)
• Explorations: respiratory polygraphy, polysomnography, vigilance tests, in dedicated hospital rooms with paramedical staff specifically trained in these techniques.
• Treatments: implementation and monitoring of nocturnal continuous positive airway pressure ventilation, wakefulness-promoting treatments, CBT of insomnia, etc.

The unit works closely with the neurology,ENT, maxillofacial surgery, pulmonology and pediatrics. It provides referral diagnoses for complex sleep disorders in Western Normandy, participates in teaching activities (training of medical and paramedical staff), communication and research in this field.

Sleep consultations and examinations are offered only upon written request from a doctor.

• Insomnia and sleep conditioning disorders
• Breathing problems during sleep
• Narcolepsy and other hypersomnias
• Sleepwalking and other parasomnias
• Restless legs syndrome
• Circadian rhythm disorders

• 3 rooms dedicated to sleep recordings
• 3 fixed polysomnographs
• 1 ambulatory polysomnography
• 3 ambulatory polygraphs
• 1 actimeter