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This comprehensive guide for ENT specialists focuses on managing sleep apnea, emphasizing diagnosis, treatment, and innovation. It covers the importance of understanding sleep apnea's complexities, screening processes, and diagnostic protocols. Treatment strategies include lifestyle modifications, CPAP therapy, oral appliances, surgical interventions, and leveraging telehealth solutions like BetterNight for patient care optimization.
Undiagnosed sleep apnea significantly impacts a patient’s overall health. Otolaryngologists are at the forefront of diagnosing and treating this disorder. Symptoms vary, with loud snoring, morning headaches, and daytime fatigue being common. The article underscores the importance of recognizing these signs, especially in ENT patients, and outlines treatment options ranging from CPAP therapy to surgical interventions, highlighting the critical role of specialized care in managing sleep apnea effectively.
Many workers in the United States do not get the recommended 7-9 hours of sleep per night, whether due to daily stressors or an undiagnosed sleep disorder. Savvy employers recognize this and incorporate sleep education into their employee benefits. They know a well-rested workforce can significantly improve productivity, employee satisfaction, and the company's bottom line. If you want to learn more about how to add sleep apnea screening to your wellness program, contact betternight.com.
Now that Super Bowl LVlll is in the books, we are again reminded of the incredible athleticism displayed by professional athletes. Achieving peak athletic performance requires a comprehensive approach to health, encompassing balanced nutrition, consistent training, stress management, and quality sleep. However, even athletes excelling in their sport may still face challenges such as disrupted sleep or diagnosed sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea.
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States, but the symptoms and risk factors for the disease differ between men and women. February is American Heart Month, a month-long campaign to promote heart education and disease prevention. It is also an excellent opportunity to learn about heart-healthy habits, the importance of sleep for the heart, and the differences in heart disease symptoms and risk factors between men and women.
Case managers are crucial advocates who provide guidance, education, and care coordination for patients with complex health conditions. They play a vital role in supporting and advocating for sleep apnea patients who often have comorbid medical issues. Sleep disorder management is complex, and navigating multiple specialists, insurance, and treatment can be daunting. Case managers simplify the process, providing valuable advocacy that results in better patient outcomes.
Most people in the US do not get the recommended amount of sleep for optimal health due to their busy lifestyles or potential sleep health disorders. While the hallmarks of good sleep hygiene include sleep duration of 7-9 hours per night, high-quality restorative sleep, and a consistent sleep schedule, new research examines how weekend catch-up sleep can help restore the damaging effects of low sleep duration and protect the heart.
Sleep apnea is a prevalent sleep disorder that often goes undiagnosed. Patients with sleep apnea are at risk for, or already have, other serious comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, or diabetes. Untreated sleep apnea leads to untreated health problems and an increased financial burden on the healthcare system. However, telehealth provides a simple and cost-effective solution for treating sleep apnea and its underlying conditions, making it a financially beneficial option.
Winter cold and dry weather can pose challenges for patients with ENT conditions such as tinnitus, vertigo, and respiratory disorders like sleep apnea. Quality sleep is key—maintaining good sleep hygiene, regulating bedroom temperature and using a heated tube with humidification can help combat air dryness.
In 2023, the American Diabetes Association recognizes the crucial link between diabetes and sleep health. Diabetes Educators play a key role, urging proactive measures and using tools like the STOP-Bang screener. BetterNight's telehealth solution offers efficient screening, diagnosis, and treatment for sleep apnea at home, doubling compliance rates. Explore the intersection of diabetes and sleep health at betternight.com.
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy stands as the gold standard treatment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However, a significant number of patients struggle to tolerate CPAP, often citing nasal congestion as a major hindrance to adherence. In an effort to address this issue, researchers conducted a study to investigate the potential benefits of Acoustic Resonance Therapy (ART) for patients facing challenges with CPAP adherence and experiencing nasal symptoms. The Study…
CPAP/APAP therapy remains the gold standard for treating OSA. Unfortunately, many patients struggle with long term CPAP/APAP adherence. Patients frequently have only 90 days to meet Medicare criteria for adherence to assure coverage of their CPAP/APAP therapy. Lack of adherence often leads to…
CPAP is the gold standard therapy for OSA. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of patients do not tolerate CPAP therapy. Of those who struggle, a significant portion state that nasal congestion is a limiting factor. Acoustic Resonance Therapy (ART) is a new non-medication based treatment for nasal congestion. We sought to determine if patients struggling with Medicare CPAP adherence and reporting nasal symptoms would benefit by the addition of ART.
To understand the connection between Erectile Dysfunction (ED) and sleep apnea, you must first understand the health consequences of chronic sleep deprivation as well as the co-morbidities that exist between these two conditions. It has been well documented that sleep plays a vital role in our overall health.
Among the many comorbidities that exist with sleep apnea is GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease. While most of us have suffered from occasional acid reflux or heartburn, GERD is characterized by the more frequent reflux occurrence, when stomach acid moves up from the stomach to the esophagus.
BetterNight can help you grow and optimize your dental sleep practice by providing a variety of sleep apnea services. We work in partnership with dental sleep providers so that the treatment process begins and ends in your dental office, allowing for efficiencies and flexibility in overall treatment.
Obesity in the United States has grown to epidemic proportions. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 40% of adults in the U.S. are obese. New research predicts that by the year 2030, about 49% of the population will be obese, with 29 states reflecting an obesity rate of over 50%.
The word “apnea” means the absence of breathing. Sleep apnea refers to a potentially serious medical condition that causes patients to temporarily stop breathing while they are sleeping. The repetitive occurrence of oxygen deprivation creates different kinds of alarms throughout your body, interrupting normal processes for your brain, heart, lungs, hormones, and other key systems.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) falls into the category of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). This condition occurs when the upper airway partially or completely obstructs when you are sleeping.
Sleep might look like a passive activity on the surface, but your body and mind are actually hard at work when you hit the sack. Sleeping plays an important role in your memory and learning processes. When you learn how to do something new, memory, and sleep processes work together to internalize that new knowledge.
In this On-Demand BetterNight & EnsoData webinar, we dive into that question, as technology is making waves in more than just diagnosis and treatment. Learn how game-changing AI technology can be predictive of future CPAP problems.
The practice of sleep medicine has been integrating more virtual care for the past few years. The pandemic has only increased the velocity of this change. BetterNight helps sleep physicians, physicians in other specialties, and dentists expand their practices, improve patient outcomes, and integrate virtual care.
By integrated home sleep testing and apnea care management Sharp Community Medical Group (SCMG) has reduced high-cost utilization by over 90% during the past decade. Learn how your ACO can find meaningful savings by integrating a virtual sleep management program.
BetterNight, a leading virtual-care sleep apnea patient management provider, is proud to announce that Dr. Marc Benton has joined the company as a Staff Doctor serving patients in New Jersey.
BetterNight, a leading provider of comprehensive sleep care through its virtual care platform, announced today $33 million in growth funding led by NewSpring. The financing round includes participation from existing investors HCAP Partners and Hamilton Lane (NASDAQ:HLNE) via its Impact Fund II and other accounts managed by the firm.
Peerbridge Health and BetterNight are partnering on a unique new care management solution designed specifically for cardiology practices for earlier identification, treatment, and optimization of ongoing care management of patients with atrial fibrillation (AFib) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).
HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and nationally recognized impact investor, today announced its series B investment in BetterNight, one of the nation's leading comprehensive virtual-care sleep health solutions.
BetterNight, the nation's only comprehensive virtual-care sleep health solution, today announced its successful completion of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 compliance. SOC 2 compliance requires both a technical audit alongside comprehensive information security policies and procedures.
BetterNight understands the importance of keeping truck drivers on the road during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we face this challenge together, millions of us stay at home, but thousands of drivers are working hard to ensure goods get to our local communities.
Itamar Medical Ltd. (Nasdaq: ITMR) (TASE: ITMR), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of non-invasive medical devices, solutions and a digital health platform to aid in the diagnosis of respiratory sleep disorders, today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Sleep Data Diagnostics and its virtual-care platform BetterNight and Sleep Data Holdings, a leading provider of home-based positive airway pressure (PAP) services.
Sleep Data and BetterNight, the leading providers of PAP (positive airway pressure) services in San Diego, CA, today announced a $6 million round of growth funding led by HCAP Partners, a San Diego-based provider of growth capital to middle-market companies.