Patients with sleep disorders present with a wide variety of symptoms.

Typical warning signs include:

• Loud disruptive snoring
• Gasping for breath or witnessed cessation of • Breathing by sleep partner
• Excessive daytime sleepiness
• Morning headaches
• Irritability, depression, memory loss,
• Deterioration in job performance
• Frequent nighttime urination

Untreated patients with sleep disordered breathing may suffer many consequences including:

• Falling asleep while driving
• Depression
• Hypertension
• Stroke
• Coronary Artery Disease
• Congestive heart failure
• Difficulty controlling diabetes
• Pulmonary hypertension

Treatment for sleep apnea usually reduces these consequences, often quickly, and offers long term benefits to your patients.

Referring a Patient to Arlington Sleep Medicine, Ltd.:

For a comprehensive sleep evaluation, physicians may refer patients directly to our medical director, Dr. Gofreed. She will schedule any required sleep diagnostic testing and follow up to review results and plans.

Physicians may refer patients directly to our sleep laboratory by faxing a signed order with diagnosis to 703.243.3131.

For your convenience we have a Patient Referral Form with covered diagnoses which can be downloaded from this website or obtained from our office. Any additional history you provide is very helpful. We will contact your patient to schedule their study and take care of any prior authorization with their insurance.

Following the sleep study, the recording is scored by our polysomnographic technologist and interpreted by Dr. Gofreed. A timely report with recommendations is issued.