Mobile sleep apnea diagnosis trailer unveiled

betty303 · Post by **betty303** » Thu Jun 19, 2008 10:23 pm

Today, Covidian unveiled a mobile trailer in Boulder, CO that will travel around the coentry to help diagnose and educate truck drivers that might have/do have sleep apnea. The news blurb on local TV news said that more than 20% of truckers have sleep apnea and more needs to be done to help deal with the consequences.

bap40 · Post by **bap40** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:14 am

A very interesting idea. I wonder if there is a doc onboard?

Mr_Ed · Post by **Mr_Ed** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:51 am

Channel Four (CBS) has had sleep apnea featured two nights in a row but the info is pretty limited and fragmented. I wrote to Dr. Dave Hnida and asked him if he'd do a little segment on apnea but I never got a response - no time for the little people (he's probably a pretty busy guy).

Here's a link to last night's report on the mobile sleep lab for truckers (you can also watch the video)

http://cbs4denver.com/health/truckers.s ... 52958.html

Here's the previous nights report (from June 18th)

http://cbs4denver.com/health/sleep.apne ... 51713.html

The report from June 18 was written about in the Whittier Daily News (Whittier, CA) on the 10th and was a bit more complete....

http://www.whittierdailynews.com/ci_9546082