BAPTIST HEALTH Sleep Disorders Center- Little Rock 9500 Kanis Rd. Little Rock 72205 (501)202-1902 Type of Facility: Physician Clinic

BAPTIST HEALTH Sleep Disorders Center- North Little Rock 3333 Springhill Drive, 2nd Floor North Little Rock 72117 (501)202-3400 Type of Facility: Hospital

How much sleep is enough?

The amount of sleep each person needs is as individual as their personality and can be affected by age, activity, diet, time of day, medications, general health, emotional status and genetics. "Enough" sleep is the amount of time an individual needs to stay awake and alert at all points during the day until near bedtime.

One out of every three people suffers from sleeplessness at some time in their lives, and an estimated 30-40 million Americans suffer from sleep disorders serious enough to affect their general health.

...And how much sleep is not enough?

People deprived of sleep or whose sleep is not restful may experience a laundry list of problems influencing their own lives and the lives of those around them. Irritability, lack of attention and alertness, slowed reflexes, poor judgment, decreased productivity, mood alteration, accidents and deterioration of health are just a few of the potential consequences of poor sleep. Chronic sleep problems have been linked with higher mortality rates.

The BAPTIST HEALTH Sleep Disorders Center offers help for patients who are unable to sleep or are chronically sleepy. Patients often will not complain of sleep-related behaviors, but of their consequences - loss of energy, fatigue, memory lapses, difficulty in concentrating, decreased sex drive, and/or frank sleepiness such as with driving.

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The BAPTIST HEALTH Sleep Disorders Center offers:

•  Consultations (inpatient and outpatient)
  
•  Comprehensive longterm follow-up in the sleep disorders clinic for all sleep disorders
  
•  Sleep logs and actigraphy (long term sleep/wake monitoring)
  
•  Screening studies for sleep apnea
  
•  Attended adult polysomnography
  
•  Multiple sleep latency test and maintenance of wakefulness tests for truck drivers and pilots
  
•  Five-channel neonatal cardiorespiratory studies
  
•  Current research - in process for enuresis, narcolepsy and sleep apnea

Patients can be referred to the BAPTIST HEALTH Sleep Disorders Clinic by a physician, family member, or self-referral. An initial consultation conducted to determine if formal testing is required.