Auto adjusting flow generator.

F&P Breaks into premium sleep market.5:00 AM Tuesday Sept. 04.2007
A medical breathing device that can sense when patients are asleep will tap into the premium end of a rapidly growing market, says Fisher& Paykel Healthcare.
The device incororated technology for sensing when the patient was awake and automatically dropping the pressure to a resting level,before raising it again when they fell asleep.
Treatment data could also be collected using a USB flash memory device for review by the patient's doctor.
The listed breathing products maker launched the hi-tech device -an auto -adjusting flow generator for treating obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA)-yesterday at the WorldSleep07 medical congress in Australia.

mangrove wrote:Treatment data could also be collected using a USB flash memory device for review by the patient's doctor.

I've been waiting for a vendor to start using a common USB memory stick device for data transfer instead of RS-232C serial interfaces or "smartcard" like devices that need special readers etc.

I hope this encourages a new low level interface standard across the industry for xPAP data transfer!

Cheers,

Bill

billbolton wrote:

mangrove wrote:Treatment data could also be collected using a USB flash memory device for review by the patient's doctor.

I've been waiting for a vendor to start using a common USB memory stick device for data transfer instead of RS-232C serial interfaces or "smartcard" like devices that need special readers etc.

I hope this encourages a new low level interface standard across the industry for xPAP data transfer!

How dare them bring that facet of OSA treament out the dark ages too. It's frightening. How will people cope?

Yes, I'd be pleased to see them all start using flash cards, like SmartMedia or CompactFlash... but obviously there won't be standardization amongst vendors.

Well, maybe I'm wrong. None, thus far, requires 3D glasses to read the unit information panel.

Nodzy

I want a USB port on my xPAP as well.

While it loads nightly data onto the USB stick, I'd like the machine to pipe MP3 music off the stick to some Bluetooth headphones attached to my mask

Also would like an SpO2 sensor built into the forehead rest on my mask and that data be be collected and added to the USB stick there is even an SpO2 device ready to be hooked up to do it.

(SEE Nonin XPOD http://www.nonin.com/products.asp?ID=27&sec=2&sub=9 )

This Nonin XPOD is the actual SpO2 that plugs into the Resmed Reslink
see how small it is - a complete SpO2 machine built into the probe socket. It allows a probe to be plugged into it & it then feeds serial data via a 3-wire plug into the Reslink or any other compatible device.

DSM