Cardiology Associates of New Brunswick

Reviews about Cardiology Associates of New Brunswick

• Jonathan Lovich

  Aug, 19 2018
  ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
  I went to this practice's Sleep Lab in order to diagnose and treat my sleep apnea. During the initial sleep study everything went okay, even though the respiratory tech was at times very impatient, and borderline rude.
  
  However, my follow-up sleep study was a disaster. The respiratory tech explained that if I had any questions or needed any help during the night that all I needed to do was request help, and she would hear me through the intercom. I only requested for help once, and it was because I felt like I was suffocating due to the BiPAP setting. On one hand, I am completely aware that it was a suffocating sensation, and I was not actually suffocating… But as you might imagine the sensation of suffocating is unbearable at best. So I was hoping that the respiratory tech would be able to make some sort of adjustment to make it more tolerable. However when the respiratory tech entered the room she was extremely agitated for reasons unknown, but regardless she should not have taken her anger out on me. When I explained that I felt like I was suffocating and asked if she could make any adjustments, she snapped "well you keep moving around". I was patient with her even after that… but when her attitude did not waver, I asserted that I needed her to make some sort of adjustment, and asked that she put it on CPAP mode until I fell asleep, so that things would be more bearable. She said she would raise the pressure of the BiPAP, and I agreed to give that a try.
  
  In general, I have a hard enough time sleeping as it is, and the respiratory tech's attitude made the issue exponentially worse. So approximately five minutes went by after she raised the BiPAP, and unfortunately I could not bear the suffocating sensation anymore. I quickly sat up and started pulling the EEG leads off, because I just wanted to get out of there. I admit that me pulling the EEG leads off on my own was not the proper thing to do, but I did not want to have a dialogue with the attitudinal technician about ending the test. What ensued after that was just downright wrong. She burst into the room and literally grabbed my arms with both of her hands. She didn't ask me to stop taking off the leads, if she did I would have had no problem complying. Again, she literally grabbed my arms and I had to tell her to let go. In fact, I urge New Brunswick Cardiology Associates to review the video that's taken during the sleep study so that they can see exactly what happened and address it so such poor conduct won't happen to any other patient.
  
  I strongly suggest using a different Sleep Lab, there are plenty of them available.

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