Helping Sleep Disorder Patients "Dream Come True"

Reporter Zhao Kaiyi Correspondent Xu Xiaobo

According to the World Health Organization's WTO survey, about 27% of people worldwide have sleep problems. Among them, China's various types of sleep disorders account for about 38% of the population, higher than the world's 27% proportion. In recent years, with the outbreak of the epidemic, the incidence of sleep disorders has also increased.

On January 17, with the help of the high-quality platform and resources of the Mental Health Center Affiliated to Zhejiang University School of Medicine (Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital), the Sleep Disorder Clinic of quzhou Third Hospital was officially opened, which will provide high-quality diagnosis and treatment services for patients with sleep disorders in Quzhou and surrounding areas.

Insomnia is a chronic disease and tends to age

"Sleep disorders are a class of sleep-related clinical syndromes characterized by difficulty falling asleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, excessive sleep, disturbances in the sleep-wake cycle, or abnormal sleep behavior. It is usually divided into four types of problems: insomnia, drowsiness, sleep-wake rhythm disorder, and abnormal activities and behaviors in sleep, including restless legs syndrome and apnea syndrome. Liu Wenjuan, deputy chief physician of the Seventh People's Hospital of Hangzhou and executive director of the Department of Psychology of the Third Hospital of Quzhou City, introduced that sleep disorders seriously affect people's sleep levels, production safety and quality of life, and are also prone to problems such as dementia, metabolism, obesity and cardiovascular diseases.

"Sleep disorder patients are often accompanied by mental illness, clinically, anxiety disorders, depression patients complain, most of them also have insomnia this symptom. Sleep disorders are also increasingly becoming a new epidemic in modern people, and there is a trend towards rejuvenation, and the youngest sleep disorder patient I have ever treated is only 9 years old. Liu Wenjuan told him that the establishment of the sleep disorder clinic is to help sleep disorder patients find the exact cause of insomnia and prescribe the right medicine.

As a clinical expert who has been engaged in psychosomatic diseases such as sleep disorders for more than 10 years, Liu Wenjuan is good at integrating traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to solve problems for patients. "We will first combine the patient's condition, conduct a comprehensive assessment and psychometric measurement of the patient, and fully understand whether the patient's sleep disorder is primary, whether it is accompanied by other psychological problems, and the severity." Among them, for patients with mild sleep disorders, we advocate the use of traditional Chinese medicine treatment, and supplemented by cognitive behavioral therapy such as sleep hygiene education, sleep restriction, stimulation control, relaxation training, etc., which are relatively natural, have small side effects, and are more easily accepted by patients; for patients with severe sleep disorders, polysomnographs are used to further systematically analyze the staging structure of patients' sleep, such as light sleep, deep sleep, and the specific length of the awake period and the proportion of weight, accurately grasp the medication, and combine the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation, biofeedback technology, Physical and psychological therapies such as relaxation training and mindfulness meditation provide patients with accurate and effective treatment plans with few side effects. Liu Wenjuan said.

Liu Wenjuan especially reminded that insomnia is a chronic disease, treatment takes time, "sleep disorder treatment is generally 8 to 12 weeks as a cycle, during this period, it is recommended that patients fix the doctor to standardize medical treatment, should not be in the short term of sleep without improvement and frequent change of doctor, otherwise it may be due to different diagnosis and treatment ideas, the use of different drugs, resulting in more and more serious medication, and even aggravation of the disease." ”

Platform advantages, to create a refined diagnosis and treatment model

At present, there are 36 medical staff in the sleep disorder outpatient clinic of Quzhou Third Hospital. On November 8 last year, the Third Hospital of Quzhou City established cooperation with the Seventh People's Hospital of Hangzhou, a well-known tertiary mental disease specialist hospital in China. Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital will, in accordance with the development plan and goals of Quzhou Third Hospital, send experts or teams with high business level and strong management ability to long-term settlement guidance, and provide free refresher training and learning for employees of Quzhou Third Hospital to accelerate the improvement of their medical service capabilities. The Third Hospital of Quzhou City will also carry out in-depth cooperation in scientific research projects with the help of the clinical research integration platform and expert team of the Seventh People's Hospital of Hangzhou.

"The two sides can also conduct remote consultation, and in terms of two-way referral business, Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital will also open a green channel for Quzhou Third Hospital." In addition, the Seventh People's Hospital of Hangzhou has a sleep disorder laboratory, whether it is clinical or scientific research, we can provide strong support for the Third Hospital of Quzhou. Liu Wenjuan, as the first expert to sink into this cooperation, said that she will bring advanced medical concepts and management methods to the Third Hospital of Quzhou City, promote the refined development of specialties, improve the management level of departments, and use exquisite technology and high-quality services to help marginal sleep patients in the four provinces "dream come true".

The relevant person in charge of the Third Hospital of Quzhou City said that in the future, the two hospitals will conduct in-depth and extensive exchanges in talent training and business services, and work together to create a first-class psychological characteristics specialty brand in the four provinces, so that patients in Quzhou and surrounding areas can enjoy high-quality medical resources and diagnosis and treatment services at their doorstep, and further enhance the sense of medical access and happiness.

【Source: Quzhou Evening News】

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