Non-contact Instrumentation for the Home Monitoring of Upper Airway Obstructions in Sleep

用于家庭睡眠监测上呼吸道阻塞的非接触式仪器

• 批准号: DP0773687
• 负责人: A/Prof Udantha Abeyratne
• 金额: $ 9.06万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Projects
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2007-07-11 至 2010-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DP0773687
• 关键词: Non; contact; Instrumentation; Home; Monitoring

Over 800,000 Australians suffer from obstructive sleep apnoea costing billions of dollars annually to the nation. Obstructive sleep apnoea patients use twice the health resources compared to a normal person, and 7 times more likely to cause traffic accidents. In NSW alone up to 43000 accidents per year are due to obstructive sleep apnoea. Obstructive sleep apnoea is treatable and thus consequences such as stroke and heart attacks are preventable. At present over 90% patients remain undiagnosed. Current diagnosis is expensive and requires hospitalization; no acceptable mass screening device exists. This project proposes an enabling technology for the population screening of obstructive sleep apnoea based on analysing snoring sounds. Outcomes of the project have the potential to revolutionize the diagnosis of obstructive sleep apnoea.

超过80万澳大利亚人患有阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停症，每年给国家造成数十亿美元的损失。阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停患者使用的健康资源是正常人的两倍，造成交通事故的可能性是正常人的7倍。仅在新南威尔士州，每年就有多达43000起事故是由阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停引起的。阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停是可以治疗的，因此中风和心脏病发作等后果是可以预防的。目前，超过90%的患者仍未得到诊断。目前的诊断费用昂贵，需要住院治疗；不存在可接受的大规模筛检装置。本项目提出了一种基于分析打鼾声音的阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停人群筛查的使能技术。该项目的结果有可能彻底改变阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停的诊断。