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Zac Rice , Cyndi Rice RNC, NP, Allison Palmer, and Helene Poulos-Edmo DNP, FNP-C
What Keeps You Up at Night? Helene Poulos-Edmo can help you get some rest.
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f you’re plagued with breathing problems or experience stress and anxiety, your first inclination may not be to undergo a sleep study. But that is precisely the thing Family Nurse Practitioner, Helene Poulos-Edmo would recommend. Poulos-Edmo is with the Health and Wellness Sleep Institute, a sleep diagnostic and testing center in Pocatello. She specializes in dealing with patients who have obstructive and central sleep apnea and nocturnal hypoxia. Her background in internal medicine has shown her first-hand how closely sleep disorders are linked to other, seemingly unrelated, issues. “Sleep medicine and internal medicine involve a lot of the same things, such as respiratory care,” Poulos-Edmo explains. “So, having been a Family Nurse Practitioner since 1997, before sleep medicine was commonly recognized, I’m 144 | P o c at e l lo l i f e
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familiar with how interlinked sleep and wellness are.” Poulos-Edmo was born and raised in Pocatello and obtained her masters degree in Nursing and as a Family Nurse Practitioner from ISU. In 2012 she received her doctorate from the University of Utah. Over the years, before joining the team at the Sleep Institute, she focused mainly on internal medicine, neurology and rural healthcare. Those nine years provided a wealth of experience useful for her current focus on sleep medicine. “Because of my background, I can offer patients more than other sleep centers in the way of provider care. Really, the biggest difference between my years in internal medicine and neurology is that now I provide machine treatments, setting patients up for CPAP, BiPAP and Servo-Ventilators,” Poulos-Edmo says.