Savon Medimart's sister company, Safety First Sleep Solutions, can reduce the risk of sleep deprivation related accidents by offering
affordable, low cost testing and treatment solutions for sleep apnea with sleep
therapy experts available 24/7 to assist with any questions or problems. SFSS uses a convenient, in-home low cost
testing system that enables patients to be tested in the comfort of their
homes. A large component of the program
is educating truck drivers, and the industry, on sleep apnea to help them
become healthier.
At this time,
the program is geared towards truck drivers, but it can be used for any shift
workers, factory workers, pilots, bus drivers, railroad engineers or anyone
where sleep apnea can cause poor productivity and put themselves and others at
a great risk for accidents. We want to
help employees and companies keep the number of employee related accidents to a
minimum.
The most
important reason for recognizing and treating sleep apnea is to prevent future
health incidents such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heart disease,
impotence, stroke and heart attack.
Treating sleep apnea early in life enhances your future health and
longevity. When we sleep at night our
airway is normally open, like a straw, allowing air to easily flow in and out. Oxygen
moves through the lung tissue into the blood stream attaching itself to red
blood cells. These cells carry oxygen to
your major organs to keep your body healthy and functioning properly. With sleep apnea, the airway is narrower
(snoring is a sign of a narrow airway) and becomes obstructed, causing the
exchange of oxygen to not occur correctly.
In untreated sleep apnea, the exchange of oxygen does not occur causing
the organs to not be properly oxygenated.
Think of it
this way: Vehicles require oil to keep
the engine running properly. The engine
will be destroyed if the oil is dirty and disgusting. Drivers would never allow this to
happen. The same can be said for oxygen
rich blood and organs. Untreated sleep
apnea causes malfunctioning organs which causes many health related
issues.
Robin Ivany, Savon Medimart VP says: “Not only does untreated
sleep apnea cause countless accidents, left undetected, it can lead to a
plethora of other major health problems.
It just makes tremendous financial sense for companies to be proactive
with this health issue. This condition
creates such a tremendous liability for companies, mostly because most people
that actually have sleep apnea do not even know they have it. There are no blood tests, for instance, to
detect such a condition. People are
dangerously sleep deprived while they routinely operate vehicles or machinery
throughout the day. This is even a
problem for employees that sit at a desk all day. It is a huge productivity issue.”
