jo n me to become a militant sleep fundamentalist!

[cpapernewbie]

Excellent article in Huffington Post: by Qanta Ahmed, MDBoard Certified Sleep Physician, International Author, "In the Land of Invisible Women"
Posted: February 2, 2010 09:10 AM
Be Your Own Sleep Specialist: Sleep Medicine And The Self-Care Movement
"Dr. Sanders, the President and CEO of Global Telemedicine Group made an observation which struck me as profound. I have been sharing it with my patients ever since. He observed medicine is changing in every dimension. Its time to realize: in the future patients will be their own healthcare providers. "

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qanta-ahm ... 42802.html

[dsm]

Interesting read & a good find.

My immediate interest went to the Zeo. Am guessing someone has already posted info about it here at cpaptalk but if so
I haven't seen it.

Here is a link to this device - 1st obvious question is, has anyone tried it ? - 2nd is does anyone know anything about it ?

http://www.myzeo.com/


DSM

Post-2

The unit appears to have a head worn sensor that wirelessly sends data through the night to a bedside unit. The bedside unit has an SD card. The data can be up loaded to a web site that analyzes it & presents the user with charts identifying stages of sleep. These are the 4 categories I saw on their promo video ...

WAKE - REM - LIGHT - HEAVY

D

Post-3

Extracted from the article & in ref to the ZEO (PS: the original article smacks a little of a promo lead in to the ZEO but if it works, who cares)

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Perhaps this self-caring approach is best captured in the philosophy of a new device which first surfaced in the market in the summer of 2009. I read about it last July in the New York Times. The Zeo is a portable, at-home device, designed for the consumer (not as a prescribed medical technology) which nonetheless measures sleep architecture surprisingly well. Let me repeat that: surprisingly well. It can tell you quite literally the shape of your sleep. The device looks a lot like a clock radio and wirelessly communicates with a headband which is worn on the forehead. During sleep, sensors in the headband record and transmit the kinds of brain waves, or EEG data which are emitted during sleep. In the morning, the data can be downloaded with a USB adapter to display graphically the amount of 'light' sleep and deeper, slow wave sleep and finally dream sleep that you experienced that night.

What could be the value in that, you might ask. Well, certain behaviors promote certain kinds of sleep. For instance, that alcoholic drink one partakes of on a Friday night --you will be surprised to see -- can initially trigger some deep sleep and then promptly lead to lots of nighttime disruptions which can be measured. Or let's say one exercises, like I do, spinning at SoulCycle a few times a week. Those days, my recordings will show me higher percentages of slow wave sleep, explaining why I feel refreshed and invigorated the next day. Maybe looking at these changing graphs will add to my motivations to SoulCycle more often.

The applications for home measurement of sleep patterns are tremendous. At the moment, I evaluate patients, study them in American Academy Accredited sleep laboratory in a costly and labor intensive procedure and then I see the patients at appointments thereafter. My expert education and various targeted interventions depend on their implementation only based on how well the patient listens to what I say, how well I explain my treatment plan. I only get to find out how my patient does some weeks later. If the patient could somehow, become engaged in the mystery of seeing his or her sleep change architecturally in real-time, so-to-speak, the potential impact of the behavioral change might actually be amplified.
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[SnoresLikeWalrus]

Have not heard anything about Zeo.

[dsm]

Found the ZEO cost info ...

$399 for the Zeo unit & 1st 6 months 'coaching' (I assume that means website access) & for 6 months additional 'coaching' after the 1st, pay another $99 per 6-month block.

I'll stick to monitoring my nightly cpap machine data

DSM

post-2
http://www.myzeo.com/pages/44_how_it_works.cfm

post-3
Nice title to this article ...
"Zeo's Personal Sleep Coach makes money from your insomnia" ...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/11/zeos ... -insomnia/

[BlueHairBob]

mine only cost $249 with 12 months coaching. I want to correlate CPAP breathing data with sleep data. trying it first time tonight.

[dsm]

mine only cost $249 with 12 months coaching. I want to correlate CPAP breathing data with sleep data. trying it first time tonight.

mine only cost $249 with 12 months coaching. I want to correlate CPAP breathing data with sleep data. trying it first time tonight.

BHB

Please do let us know how you go & what you think of it and the data it provides.

Cheers


DSM

[fadedgirl]

mine only cost $249 with 12 months coaching. I want to correlate CPAP breathing data with sleep data. trying it first time tonight.

Yes you can get them at amazon for $249 (via Zeo), or at Zeo's website for $249 or $349 with the lifetime coaching. I didn't see the benefit of the lifetime coaching, it appeared to be mostly software-driven responses to quiz input, online goal setting work throughs, generated emails, etc.