While sleep apnea has never been a personal problem in the Rockhouse, I'm well-aware of how terrifying to lie down with someone who has it. The breathing will be regular and calm ... but then it stops ... tick, tick, tick ... breathe, damn you ... tick, tick, tick ... by that time you're wide-awake and then finally there's a snuffling start and breathing starts again.
Sleep apnea definitely has the potential to kill you. Onward.
Results of a definitive clinical trial show that a new, disposable diagnostic patch effectively detects obstructive sleep apnea across all severity levels.
Results show that the total rate of clinical agreement between the patch and standard in-lab polysomnography was 87.4 percent with 95 percent confidence interval of 81.4 percent to 91.9 percent. According to the authors, the study results will be used in obtaining approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the device, SomnaPatch. The skin-adhesive diagnostic patch weighs less than one ounce and records nasal pressure, blood oxygen saturation, pulse rate, respiratory effort, sleep time and body position.
Science Daily: New disposable, wearable patch found to effectively detect sleep apnea
That's a tasty intro since I read they can accurately detect sleep apnea but I want to know what they will do about it.
The article further confirms this procedure is as effective or more in comparison with inpatient sleep studies but that's as far as it goes, I'm afraid.
"Most home sleep diagnostic devices are difficult for patients to use and are disruptive to patient's sleep," said Merchant. "Our study showed that this wearable home sleep monitor is very comfortable, easy to use and does not negatively affect sleep."
The research abstract was published recently in an online supplement of the journal Sleep and will be presented as a poster presentation on Sunday, June 4, and as an oral presentation on Wednesday, June 7, in Boston at SLEEP 2017, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS), which is a joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.
- SD
That result is not dramatic but neither is it a disappointment since the doctors can't really start with the problem until they first detect it. Now they can and with high reliability plus without a whole lot of hassle to you. Overall, the Rockhouse sees this one as goodness.
Sleep apnea definitely has the potential to kill you. Onward.
Results of a definitive clinical trial show that a new, disposable diagnostic patch effectively detects obstructive sleep apnea across all severity levels.
Results show that the total rate of clinical agreement between the patch and standard in-lab polysomnography was 87.4 percent with 95 percent confidence interval of 81.4 percent to 91.9 percent. According to the authors, the study results will be used in obtaining approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the device, SomnaPatch. The skin-adhesive diagnostic patch weighs less than one ounce and records nasal pressure, blood oxygen saturation, pulse rate, respiratory effort, sleep time and body position.
Science Daily: New disposable, wearable patch found to effectively detect sleep apnea
That's a tasty intro since I read they can accurately detect sleep apnea but I want to know what they will do about it.
The article further confirms this procedure is as effective or more in comparison with inpatient sleep studies but that's as far as it goes, I'm afraid.
"Most home sleep diagnostic devices are difficult for patients to use and are disruptive to patient's sleep," said Merchant. "Our study showed that this wearable home sleep monitor is very comfortable, easy to use and does not negatively affect sleep."
The research abstract was published recently in an online supplement of the journal Sleep and will be presented as a poster presentation on Sunday, June 4, and as an oral presentation on Wednesday, June 7, in Boston at SLEEP 2017, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS), which is a joint venture of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society.
- SD
That result is not dramatic but neither is it a disappointment since the doctors can't really start with the problem until they first detect it. Now they can and with high reliability plus without a whole lot of hassle to you. Overall, the Rockhouse sees this one as goodness.
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