Overview
The Center for Healthy Sleep, directed by Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D., specializes in diagnosing and treating sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnea, obstructive and non-obstructive hypoventilation, central apnea, primary snoring and disorders of hypersomnia, including narcolepsy.
Our sleep medicine specialists are board certified, with expertise in sleep-related breathing disorders. To arrive at a diagnosis, the doctors may first evaluate your child to see if an overnight sleep study, or polysomnography, is needed. If a sleep study is necessary, your child and one parent/guardian spend the night in an environment designed to relax the young patient, promoting normal sleep.
The sleep study is performed by a registered sleep polysomnography technologist using state-of-the-art equipment. The data is then analyzed, and the specialist interprets the data to determine the appropriate treatment. Polysomnographic testing measures physiologic changes, including staging sleep, respiratory abnormalities, cardiac arrhythmias, body movements, arousal from sleep and abnormal behaviors in sleep to be identified.
Scheduling a Sleep Study
Please make sure we have your most current contact information, phone number and address. If you have scheduling questions or need to talk to someone in the sleep lab, please call and leave a message at 858-966-4066.
Calls are returned within 24 hours, Monday through Friday. Please wait at least two weeks after the study was ordered to call to schedule a study. If you have questions, please call the main pulmonary office at 858-966-5846. If you are unable to keep your scheduled appointment, please contact the lab as soon as possible — the wait list for sleep studies is quite long. If you do not give at least 24 hours notice for cancellation, we may not be able to reschedule the study.
Night of Study
On the night of the study, go to the main Hospital entrance (entrance #1). If you arriving by car, you may park in the visitor’s parking lot on Children’s Way. Inform the receptionist that you are here for a sleep study. He or she will give you directions to the Medical Nelson Unit.
You should expect to be at the study for six to eight hours. The majority of studies are completed around 5:30 a.m. Please arrange for transportation after the study, as we unfortunately cannot accommodate sleeping beyond the study’s duration.
Study Results
Please call your doctor three weeks after the study is performed to obtain study results and further recommendations.
In the News
- Later School Start Times Coming in 2022, fox5sandiego.com, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- New Guidelines: Children Under 5 Should Spend No More Than an Hour a Day in Front of Screens, cbs8.com, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- Tips for Helping Kids Adjust to Daylight Saving Time, kusi.com, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- Parents Asking San Diego Unified to Let Their Children Sleep, nbcsandiego.com, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- Back to School: How Much Sleep Do Kids Need, CBS 8, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- School Starting Later, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- Now is the Time to Get Your Child’s Sleep Routine on Track Before School Begins, cw6sandiego.com, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- Is Your Kid Getting Enough Sleep?, fox5sandiego.com, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- How An Early School Start Is Affecting Teenagers’ Sleep, kpbs.org, features Rakesh Bhattacharjee, M.D.
- National Sleep Awareness Week, kusi.com, features Daniel Lesser, M.D.