St. Luke’s Medical Center was the first to have a sleep laboratory in the Philippines in 1992. It eventually opened the Comprehensive Sleep Disorder Center (CSDC) in 2000. It started offering a wide range of services for the treatment and diagnosis of sleep disorders as the specialty started to grow. In March of 2010, as the hospital opened a new branch in Global City, it extended the reach of the sleep center.
St. Luke’s Medical Center currently has 6 beds with Level 1 sleep study.
The CSDC offers diagnostic and split-night polysomnography. Multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) and maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT) are also available.
Therapeutic sleep studies of the center include continuous and bilevel positive airway pressure (PAP) titration.
The center just recently started a fellowship program for sleep medicine and there are currently two fellows in training. The sleep fellows together with the technician regularly receive lectures/activities from the sleep consultant staffs. Likewise, the consultant staffs are also active member of the Philippine Society of Sleep Medicine (PSSM) that conduct workshops for sleep technicians and conferences for those physicians interested in the specialty. The fellowship program at present is only open to local physicians who plan to practice outside Metro Manila. This is to hasten the growth of sleep medicine wider across the country.
We have 5 staffs including the section manager. The shifts are as follows: 8am-4pm, 12pm-8pm, 8pm-4am, 9pm-5am
During a day shift, the staff makes sure that all the scheduled sleep studies had confirmed and received appropriate orientation prior to their appointments. Making sure that the center is stocked adequately is another important duty of the shift as it is difficult to obtain these supplies at night during a sleep study. For the night shift duties, apart from conducting the sleep study, the staff coordinates with the sleep consultant any untoward events or episodes during the night. Placing patient comfort and safety during the whole duration of the study while maintaining quality data collection. They make sure all the emergency equipment is functional and on stand-by.
There were more than a 1000 sleep studies done in St. Luke’s Medical Center last year in which over 600 studies include PAP titration. MSLT and MWT average around 5 a year.
St. Luke’s Medical Center – Global City,
32nd St. corner 5th Ave.,
Bonifacio Global City, Taguig City,
Philippines, 1634
(+632) 789-7700 Loc 2009
sleepcenter.slmc.bgc@gmail.com
