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A night to win the hospital insomnia

Nasce a Torino, presso l’ospedale Molinette, il primo night hospital italiano per curare le patologie del sonno. Intende andare incontro a quel 10 percento della popolazione che fatica a dormire, compromettendo l’attività lavorativa e le relazioni sociali: il servizio è rivolto a chi dorme troppo poco, ma anche a chi soffre di ipersonnia, di apnee notturne, di incubi ricorrenti e di sonnambulismo. Gli specialisti torinesi si avvalgono di raffinati strumenti diagnostici: ci sono il polinnigrafo, l’actigrafo, il poligrafo, il saturimetro. Il primo serve a scrutare tutto ciò che accade nel cervello del malato: la sua attività cerebrale, quando enter into REM sleep, etc.. The second purpose is to record the sleep-wake cycle. The third shows the cardiac and respiratory activity. The fourth is used to calculate the amount of oxygen in the blood. In practice, the hospital's new center Molinette into service when all other departments are closing down and allows you to undergo an expert without losing a day's work. The patient presents at the department of neuroscience and is held in the evening until the following day. At 20.30 the patient is brought into the room that will host for the night. There is a microphone hanging from the ceiling need to record every little noise from simple snoring to cry out for example that those who suffer from nocturnal seizures. There is an infrared camera that communicates to the medical department of physical activity of insomnia or sleep-walker. The tests begin around 23.00. At this time brought into use all the different machines. Waking up at 7.00 and diagnosis. At 8:00 the patient leaves the department ready to start a new day: the recipe in his pocket to be able to finally defeat the difficulty in granting the arms of Morpheus.