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Ready to quit
smoking?
Fayette County Memorial
Hospital o ers smoking
cessation program
Smoking is the leading preventable
cause of death and disease in the
world today. At Fayette County
Memorial Hospital (FCMH), we
provide a smoking cessation program
to help you quit smoking for good!
Four FCMH sta members,
including Robert Pickering, MD, have
recently become certi ed to teach a
smoking cessation course through
the American Lung Association. As
you will learn throughout the
seven-week course, it has been
determined that the highest success
rate with smoking cessation is
achieved by combining a couple of
smoking cessation therapies, such
as the smoking cessation course
along with nicotine replacement
therapy. We want to provide you
with all the information we can so
that we can help you be successful
with your smoking cessation.
If you quit smoking, your heart
and lungs will work better and your
risk for emphysema, stroke, heart
disease and some forms of cancer
will decrease. You could add years
to your life, and you would no
longer expose others to dangerous
secondhand smoke.
Call
740-333-2710
for
more information on our
smoking cessation program.
If the initial readings indicate
sleep apnea, the next portion of the
test may be done while you wear a
special device to improve nighttime
breathing. A variation of this test can
be done in your home if your doctor
approves.
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Multiple sleep latency test.
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daytime test can help diagnose
narcolepsy, an uncommon but
potentially serious neurological
sleep disorder marked by excessive
daytime sleepiness and sudden
episodes of muscle weakness.
With sensors attached to your
head, face and chin, you try to nap. A
technician checks your brain activity
to see if and how quickly you fall
asleep and how deeply you sleep.
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Maintenance of wakefulness
test.
is exam gauges your daytime
alertness. It may be used to evaluate
sleep-disorder treatments or to show
if you’re awake enough to drive or
perform other functions safely.
During the trial, you simply sit
comfortably in a chair and try to stay
awake. Sensors attached to your head,
face and chin monitor your progress.
All of these tests can help your
FCMH Smoking Cessation Program
Instructors include (from left) Angie
Davis, RRT, and Nicole Hollar, RRT, and
Ron Dunn, MA, and Robert Pickering,
MD, pictured on page 4.
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doctor diagnose and treat your sleep
problem. At FCMH, Dr. Pickering
personally reviews the results of each
sleep study.
“We restructured our Sleep Lab
when I came to FCMH full-time
back in 2011,” Dr. Pickering says.
“We now work with SleepMed as the
service provider, and the transition
has gone smoothly. By partnering
with SleepMed, we now o er full
service in lab sleep studies with very
exible scheduling. Recently, we
have started o ering in-home sleep
studies as well, when appropriate.
You can be scheduled for in-lab
studies by your primary caregiver
or be seen in my o ce. In-home
studies require an o ce evaluation
to be sure appropriate studies are
performed. If you’re having sleep
problems, we’ll do our best to get
you relief.”
Sleep studies are a covered bene t
under most insurance plans, but
check with your insurance carrier
if you are unsure what your plan
covers. e Sleep Laboratory sta
will contact your insurance company
and arrange for payment.
