TEXAS CHILDREN'S SLEEP CENTER
What to expect

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	The Texas Children's Sleep Disorders Clinic serves approximately 150 children yearly, and tests approximately 400 children annually for sleep disorders.

Specialist care
Sleep disorder specialists take an extensive sleep disorder history and physical to properly diagnosis the patient, then offer lifestyle and medical help to manage the sleep disorder.

Testing and diagnosis
The sleep laboratory allows board-certified pediatric sleep technologists to perform all night sleep studies on children with suspected sleep disorders. The studies are interpreted by board certified sleep medicine physicians.

Teaching and research
Residents from Baylor College of Medicine rotate through the Sleep Center to receive training in pediatric sleep. Physicians interested in becoming sleep specialists also are trained in the Sleep Center.

Drs. Daniel Glaze and Merrill Wise are investigating obstructive sleep apnea in children through a grant from the National Institutes of Health. This research will help pediatricians better understand and diagnose how sleep disruption or sleep apnea impacts the mental and physical well being of a child during the day. Another part of this research will provide hard data to support common wisdom that surgeries such as tonsillectomy and adnoidectomy improve sleep apnea.