Home Polysomnograph?

[gobears]

I currently have a finger pulse oximeter, and have learned alot checking the data. What I would really like to have is a home polysomnograph, to monitor the stages of sleep and number of arousals. Does anyone know of such products that are available for home use?

[Wulfman]

The type of information you're asking about would be way to complex to determine without all the wires and equipment being attached to a person like is done in a sleep lab. That's not to say that it may not happen some day (like pulse-oximetry), but it ain't there yet.
With a data-capable CPAP/APAP/Bi-Level, some of the data (desaturations and apnea/hypopnea events) can possibly be matched up with a recoding pulse-oximeter, but the sleep stages and some of the rest of it aren't really definable without sophisticated equipment.

Den

[-SWS]

A few links you may find of interest, gobears:

http://alicele.respironics.com/
http://stardust.respironics.com/
http://www.sandmansleep.com/products/express.cfm
http://www.sandmansleep.com/products/pocket.cfm
http://www.vivometrics.com/
http://www.clinicalsleep.com/g20101.htm

And yet another reason for a vacation or business trip to Europe:
http://www.weinmann.de/en/home_homecare ... diagnosis/

[LoQ]

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