Emerging Industry Overview: Sleep Clinics
Industry Snapshot
Sleep clinics provide a specialized location in which to study sleep disorders. There are two major types of sleep disorders: dyssomnias and parsomnias. A dyssomnia is a disorder of getting to sleep or staying asleep or of excessive sleepiness, whereas parasomnias are disorders of arousal or the interface between sleep and waking. Parasomnias may be induced or exacerbated by sleep but they are not disorders of the sleep stages as dyssomnias are.
Sleep clinics usually have a supervising physician, but the majority of the work will be completed by technicians. Patients might never...