FDA Approves Inspire Device for OSA

not sure if this is new news for anyone... or if there is interest
The FDA has approved an upper airway stimulation device to treat a subset of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) when standard therapy isn't an option, device maker Inspire Medical Systems announced Thursday.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pulmonology ... id=6075401

The concept seems to have been around for a while;
with an Australian study in 2010, and this thread here in 2012:
viewtopic/t80947/HGNS-Therapy.html
It sounds very expensive. Insurance may not bite for years.

pbriggs wrote:not sure if this is new news for anyone... or if there is interest
The FDA has approved an upper airway stimulation device to treat a subset of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) when standard therapy isn't an option, device maker Inspire Medical Systems announced Thursday.

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Pulmonology ... id=6075401

Since there are multiple causes of sleep apnea this apparently is good news.

Indeed it appears that 36% of patients with OSA have minimal genioglossus muscle responsiveness during sleep[1] which this particular therapy is designed to deal with. If genioglossus muscle responsiveness happens to be the basis of your sleep apnea it would be a very good solution.

And it would not raise respiratory control system gain as some other therapies do.


[1] http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1 ... 2QOQKZ38jj

Do they test genioglossus muscle responsiveness during a sleep study? I am not aware that they did in my case. Unless snoring is a sign of a problem with the genioglossus muscle.

searched around for the selling price, no info...

Anybody has the idea?