Sleep & Respiratory Group
Private Hospitals in Bayside

We provide a comprehensive assessment to get to the bottom of the problem and establish an appropriate treatment pathway for you. Our fully trained and accredited physicians have years of experience, with access to cutting-edge technology, both in private and public hospitals. Whether it's asthma, sleep apnoea or anything else, insomnia, snoring, cough, breathlessness, the sleep & respiratory group can help.

Following her training, she worked as a packed time respiratory and sleep physician in two tertiary hospitals in Fresh Zealand. She currently works as a respiratory, sleep and general physician at Southern Health. Dr Chris Daley is a Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Physician with interests in respiratory infectious diseases, intensive care, acute and chronic respiratory failure, sleep disordered breathing and lung cancer diagnostics, including imaging moralities and bronchoscopy. As healthy as having clinical research interests in COD and asthma, Dr Hunt is actively involved in teaching, taking portion in educational meetings and symposia with Primary Protection Physicians. An expert assessment can be undertaken in our clinics, where we will consider the extent of snoring and how this may affect your general health, to support more specific treatments. Assessment usually includes sleep testing to ascertain the amount of abnormality and disruption to normal sleep. Sleep apnoea is simply a name given to troubles with breathing at evening as a result of snoring and narrowing of the throat. You can have sleep apnoea without obvious snoring as well! Although a peaceful degree of breathing abnormality at night can be considered normal, most people who think they have sleep apnoea will have more important abnormalities which should be addressed. Other people will have worsening insomnia at certain times of stress. Looking at sleep patterns and identifying triggers and perpetuating influences on destitute sleep is at the heart of insomnia assessment. Often insomnia is linked in with other sleep disorders, such as snoring, poor sleep habits, sleep apnoea or restless legs. Sleep testing is usually performed at some stage to look at the interaction between these and to identify other factors which may contribute to insomnia. It usually involves occupied with a sleep psychologist or sleep counselor, overcoming medical factors, excluding other components such as sleep apnoea, in addition to improving habits and thought processes which are conducive to a better night’s sleep. The focus of narcolepsy treatment is to trial a stimulant medication of which there are two major types. Leg movements are often a marker that there is snoring and sleep apnoea but they may also coexist with insomnia. A right assessment is initially undertaken to look at the effects of stress, psychological illness, relevant blood tests, as healthy as general and neurological health which may underlie leg movements. A sleep test is usually needed to define the abnormality and determine whether it’s primary or secondary. Thereafter, effective treatments depend somewhat on the underlying cause and involve supplements by mouth, basic man oeuvres, specific medications ardor rearrangement of medications. There are other medical conditions which in turn can significantly impact on sleep. Uncommon behaviors at night are given the name of parasomnias. A packed assessment would therefore involve a detailed description of the events and their frequency, corroboration by bed partners or family members, review of contributory factors including medication usage, as well as sleep testing. In general, if patients have a condition which may bar their skill to drive safely, we have an obligation to discuss their medical condition with their licensing authority. All of this can make understanding CAP treatment confusing and the Sleep and Respiratory Group will do its superior to guide you through the process.