New Home Based Sleep Apnea Monitoring Device
There is a new home based device that can be potentially used for monitoring health issues – such as sleep apnea at home.
With this new device a patient’s vital signs are typically taken once every four to eight hours. The cuff works overtime, measuring a patient’s blood oxygen levels, heart rhythm and rate, respiration and blood pressure, every 60 seconds. The data is sent wirelessly to a central computer. If something goes wrong, an alert sounds.
“The idea is to have a safety net, where any patient anywhere in the hospital is always being monitored,” said Dr. Michael Higgins, Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
“The nurses stay so busy and It’s good to know there’s something they can monitor me with when they’re too busy to be right here,” she said.
The goal is to some day use the cuff in situations like manmade or natural disasters or on soldiers injured on the battlefield — something that hits Earnest close to home.
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I do research in the area of Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
I would like to speak with someone about possible uses of this device in OSA patients.