Sleep Disorders Exploration and Treatment Unit

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

• specialized consultations (pneumology, neurology, psychiatry, pediatrics, neuropediatrics)
• explorations: ventilatory polygraphy, polysomnography, vigilance tests, in dedicated hospital rooms with paramedical staff specifically trained in these techniques.
• treatments: implementation and monitoring of nocturnal ventilation by continuous positive pressure, awakening treatments, treatment of insomnia CBT

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

Consultations and sleep 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
• Disorders of circadian rhythms

• 3 chambers dedicated to sleep recordings
• 3 fixed polysomnographs
• 1 outpatient polysomnography
• 3 outpatient polygraphs
• 1 actimeter