At home sleep stage monitoring

jskinner · Post by **jskinner** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:34 pm

I've long wished for a technology that could easily monitor ones sleep stages at home. It looks like such a technology now exists:

http://www.itamar-medical.com/Product.a ... &ppid=3006

jskinner · Post by **jskinner** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 9:56 pm

The following PDF document as an interesting section near its end describing how some of this works

http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&ct=res&c ... e-vVznHovA

Madbadvoodoo · Post by **Madbadvoodoo** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:16 am

What it had to say about pulse oximetry was interesting! I would love to have this set up in my house!! Thanks for the post!

Snoredog · Post by **Snoredog** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 12:34 am

I'd rather have one of these:

http://www.itamar-medical.com/Product.asp?pid=3005

You can order me up one when you order that pulse oximeter

Madbadvoodoo · Post by **Madbadvoodoo** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 1:40 am

Hey Snoredog cool link! I would love 2 have one of those 2!! I just got a CMS Moddel 50-f Pulse Oximeter but I am not sure that it works all that great. My RT told me that she would hook me up with her top of the line one and compair to see if the CMS is spot on...

deerslayer · Post by **deerslayer** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:48 am

P A T signal technology.... impressive credentials for institutions that have them in use..hope their data pans out for early detection of coronary heart disease

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:27 am

Thanks for that link. I agree that this is the direction the sleep professionals are going to have to go. At last count, there were around 1500 sleep centers in the U.S. (there are only 2 in my hometown of about 100 K). Assuming that they have about an average of 6 rooms, that comes out to about 3.2 million per yr. if every one ran full capacity (which probably couldn't happen). But the data show that there are about 18 million with OSA. So how are they going to evaluate all those without doing it at home? I think I'll buy some stock in that company that makes these.
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