Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit:Bariatric Surgery & WatchPAT Sleep Apnea Testing At Home in Focus

SleepApneaDisorder/ [ Press Release ] / FRANKLIN, Mass. -A standard, pre-operative protocol for patients undergoing bariatric weight-loss surgery is a test for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), which is a potential cause of life-threatening perioperative complications. Bariatric patients across the U.S. are praising the ability to be tested from the comfort of their own bed using the well-established WatchPAT device for home sleep testing.

The Cleveland Clinic Medical Innovation Summit, which is being held November 1-3, selected Outpatient Diagnosis of Sleep Disorders as one of the Top Medical Innovations for 2010. It is to WatchPAT and its unique design that they referred when describing the prize-winning choice: “These self-contained sleep-monitoring devices are typically worn on the patient’s wrist and use a non-invasive finger-mounted probe to measure signals that indicate changes in the autonomic nervous system.”

“We are performing more bariatric surgeries than ever before, but one of the long-standing fears of bariatric patients is the need to undergo overnight sleep testing in a sleep lab bed that is inconvenient to their special needs,” said Dr. Marvin Tark, head of the Pain Management Section and former Chairman of Anesthesia at Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, Marietta, Georgia. “With the high prevalence of OSA in these patients, it is critical to diagnose this disorder prior to undergoing elective bariatric surgery to reduce the high rate of post-operative, respiratory-related, life-threatening complications. WatchPAT offers us the ability to test these patients at home, enabling us to focus on their health and well-being. It’s a great help in relieving patient stress that’s often associated with sleep testing. There is no wait time involved. WatchPAT is simple to use, entails no travel to a sleep center, and results are available immediately.”

“We are happy to be the pioneers of home sleep testing in the world of bariatric surgery,” said Dr. Dov Rubin, President & CEO, Itamar-Medical. “We believe that bariatric surgeons and anesthesiologists everywhere will be excited about WatchPAT’s diagnostic precision, patient acceptance, ease of use, and simple connectivity into patient records.”

WatchPAT is the most scientifically investigated and tested ambulatory device for OSA, offering sleep physicians the ability to fully analyze the 6 channels of tamper-proof, raw sleep-related data and manually override the suggested automatic analysis in a manner similar to standard sleep lab PSG (polysomnography) recordings.

WatchPAT is the only portable device providing Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI), Respiratory Disturbance Index (RDI), and Oxygen Desaturation Index (ODI) based on actual sleep time and sleep states without a cumbersome nasal cannula, awkward belt around the chest, and EEG/EOG electrodes or other devices sticking to the head. WatchPAT offers the patient greater comfort, more natural sleep, as well as an amazingly low failure rate.

Itamar’s intuitive software enables sleep physicians to review the data remotely via WatchPORTAL web based capabilities and manually edit any and all of the automatic scoring. WatchPAT’s newest features include multi-night capability, tamper-proof occupational testing, and seamless, web-based study upload to Electronic Medical Records. Used by physicians worldwide on over 250,000 patients, WatchPAT has made Itamar-Medical the leader in home sleep testing.

WatchPAT OSA test at the Medical Innovation Summit:

Journalists & physicians attending the Medical Innovation Summit are invited to have a complimentary overnight WatchPAT sleep apnea test November 1 or 2 in the privacy of their hotel room. Contact Daphna Triwaks to reserve your WatchPAT now.

About Itamar-Medical:

Itamar Medical Ltd. is a publicly traded medical technology company (TASE:ITMR) utilizing PAT (Peripheral Arterial Tone) signal technology and applications. The PAT signal is a non-invasive “window” to both the cardiovascular and autonomic nervous systems. For more information, visit www.itamar-medical.com.

For further public relations information: Daphna Triwaks, Director of Public Relations, +972-50-520-2322; daphna@triwaks.co.il

for Itamar Medical Ltd.
Daphna Triwaks, Director of Public Relations
+972-50-520-2322
daphna@triwaks.co.il

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