Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Department
The Sleep Medicine Department of Peking University People's Hospital was established on June 20, 2022 as an independent specialty combining clinical care, education and research. It is the chair unit of the Peking University Health Science Center Sleep Medicine Center and the Peking University Sleep Research Center. Its predecessor, the respiratory medicine sleep center, began treating and researching sleep disorders in 1989. A sleep medicine specialty and expert clinic opened in 2002; the new department began independent operation in August 2022.
The sleep monitoring center has a central control room, outpatient consultation room and ten independent sleep monitoring and treatment rooms. High-magnification infrared cameras and sensitive two-way intercoms monitor ten beds in real time, displaying electrophysiological, video and audio signals together. In addition to medical treatment for sleep-related breathing disorders, it collaborates with otolaryngology, dentistry and gastrointestinal surgery in multidisciplinary treatment of sleep apnea syndrome.
The hospital describes over 90 sleep disorders, including difficulty falling asleep, excessive sleepiness and poor sleep. Conditions treated include obstructive and central sleep apnea and sleep hypoventilation; narcolepsy, periodic hypersomnia, restless legs syndrome, REM sleep behavior disorder and bruxism; and sleep-related breathing disorders associated with physiological conditions such as pregnancy. Services include home or bedside preliminary sleep apnea screening and remote monitoring, and noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation for respiratory failure and sleep-related breathing disorders.
The department provides sleep medicine training for pulmonary and critical care specialists of the Chinese Association of Chest Physicians (CACP), is a Peking University Health Science Center sleep specialist training base and a CACP sleep medicine dedicated training base. Its research has received support from the Ministry of Science and Technology's 973 Program and international cooperation projects, National Natural Science Foundation international cooperation and general projects, Beijing Science and Technology Nova Program, Ministry of Education New Century Excellent Talent Program and the Sino-German Center of the National Natural Science Foundation. It is a Beijing international science and technology cooperation base and Sino-German Joint Sleep Medicine Center.
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