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Registered Respiratory Therapist and Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner (IL). Thirty-five years in the field of Respiratory Care with the last twenty-five years spent concentrating in the area of sleep disordered breathing. Established the first hospital based compact multiphysiologic recording program for the diagnosis and treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). I`ve been fortunate to have the opportunity over the past fifteen years to travel across the country and train fellow heath care practitioners in the scoring and analysis of compact sleep apnea studies.
I'm proud to have built a comprehensive sleep disorders center in Chicago during the '80s and to then go on and build the first hospital based compact multiphysiologic recording program in the country. I now operate DRW&Associates Inc, providing sleep disorders case management services to the community along with both attended sleep studies in sleep labs along with unattended sleep studies done in the home.
I have had the opportunity over the years to help people who have sleep disordered breathing such as OSAS and I never tire of seeing the wonderful change in their lives after they are successfully treated.
I hope to continue publishing articles on sleep disordered breathing and to continue with my research projects on evaluating more effective ways to diagnose and treat sleep disordered breathing in the home setting rather than the hospital lab setting.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS) is one of the most widely under-diagnosed conditions in males aged 40-60. The ratio of male to female cases appears to be 3:2, but the ratio evens out when women reach menopause. In any event, some estimates put the number of people in this country who have sleep problems related to snoring and increased upper airway resistance at over 20 million!
It is often unnecessary to spend a night or two in a hospital sleep lab in order to arrive at a diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnea. Using the latest in portable multiphysiologic recording devices and autoadjusting treatment units, we are able to successfully diagnose and treat OSAS unattended in the patient's home and do so for less than half the cost of a comparable test in a hospital.
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Hi Tom: Might I suggest you try a nasal pillows appliance rather using traditional nasal or full-face masks? I started out on my CPAP therapy several years ago using the same UltraMirage nasal mask
James: I applaud your attention to your OSAS. But please note that a pulse oximeter is a simple screening device and not considered diagnostic when it comes to assessing sleep apnea. You cannot determine
Hi Paul: About the only advice I can give you in order to minimize the effects of sleep apnea until you get your mask is to not sleep on your back. Try putting a few pillows behind you as you lie on
Marie: Glad you stopped by AllExperts.Com! My advice to you is to check out your local sleep center (most likely at your area hospital) and make an appointment with a sleep doc (a board certified
Hi James: 5-HTP is considered experimental at best. Although the logic behind the hypothesis that it is helpful sounds reasonable, there is not enough evidence that it actually has a clinically significant

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