SLEEPTECH 2024

The 1st International SleepTech Conference will take place 18-20 October 2024 in Valmontone, Italy.

With this congress we want to update you with the continuous diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines in sleep medicine in order to standardize practice not only in Italy but in all the world.

The role of the “Sleep Technologists” in the international context is more or less regulated by training courses that are often extremely different from each other today. Furthermore, skills and career progression are often not recognized by local institutions. However, thanks to the international guidelines that establish the procedures to be adopted in the instrumental diagnosis of Sleep Disorders, the action in the work context is univocal and unequivocal. It’s necessary to develop a universal training pathway and the acquisition of common skills that allow the emergence in individual States and in relations with healthcare institutions of the interest in regulating in a congruous manner all the aspects deriving from the profession, both in terms of salary and career progression.

In the past years, there have been numerous requests to create same protocols and diagnostic pathways such as to make unambiguous and coherent interpretations of instrumental tests throughout the world. The need to combine the diagnostic with a therapeutic process according to the principle of multidisciplinarity is found during national and international conferences of Sleep Medicine. The congresses organized by the World Sleep Society, as well as by the European Sleep Research Society and by local scientific societies, represent these needs. Although organized mainly for physicians, they also dedicate space to Technological Paths given the participation of numerous sleep technologists as well as respiratory physiotherapists and speech therapists.

The need to combine the diagnostic with a therapeutic process according to the principle of multidisciplinarity is found during national and international conferences of Sleep Medicine. The congresses organized by the World Sleep Society, as well as by the European Sleep Research Society and by local scientific societies, represent these needs. Although organized mainly for physicians, they also dedicate space to Technological Paths given the participation of numerous sleep technologists as well as respiratory physiotherapists and speech therapists.

In this congress we want to study a target to be proposed in the future in other European nations, stimulate the interest in the comparison between the various international realities and involve new generation of students to approach this discipline. This is a second fundamental step because Sleep Disorders always represent a real pandemic on a global level. The staff dedicated to diagnosis and treatment in insomnia, nocturnal breathing disorders and neurological sleep disorders is extremely insufficient to deal with this problem.

I therefore warmly invite as many medical and paramedical professionals who work in the sector and to those who find interest in the discipline, to participate in this event as a learner and/or as a speaker by sending abstracts for Symposia, Oral discussions, Posters.

See you in Rome at Doria Pamphilj Palace at Valmontone on the 18, 19 and 20th of October.

Thank you.

Paolo Matrigiani
Scientific Director, SleepTech 2024