Sleep Diagnostic Device With Wireless Internet Interface

描述(由申请人提供)：先进医疗电子公司(AME)提议开发一种可穿戴式睡眠诊断设备，用于传统睡眠实验室之外，该实验室使用新的蜂窝智能电话技术通过互联网将传感器信号发送到监测设施。这将允许在研究期间进行频繁的自动或手动信号质量检查。建议的设备将提高在家睡眠研究的成功率。由于努力腰带、手指脉搏血氧计和鼻管等传感器可能会移位，人们担心需要重复家庭睡眠测试，这限制了家庭睡眠研究的接受度。在拟议的系统中，如果发现传感器问题，可以提醒技术人员做出决定，是否应该在家里联系患者以纠正传感器放置，或者是否已经收集了足够的数据来进行可记分测试。提高家庭睡眠障碍测试的可靠性将显著降低执行此类测试的总成本，并最终扩大睡眠障碍测试的机会。将进行人体测试睡眠计划，将新的睡眠呼吸暂停筛查器与黄金标准进行比较。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Advanced Medical Electronics (AME) proposes to develop a wearable sleep diagnostic device for use outside of a traditional sleep laboratory that uses new cellular smart phone technology to send sensor signals over the Internet to a monitoring facility. This will allow frequent automatic or manual signal quality checks during the study. The proposed device will improve the success rate of at-home sleep studies. Concerns over the need to repeat home sleep tests because sensors such as effort belts, finger pulse oximeters, and nasal canulas can become dislodged, have limited the acceptance of home sleep studies. In the proposed system, if a sensor problem is discovered, a technician can be alerted to make a decision if the patient should be contacted at home to correct the sensor placement, or if enough data has been collected to allow a scoreable test. Increased reliability of at-home sleep disorder testing will significantly lower the overall costs of performing such tests and ultimately expand access to sleep disorder testing. A human test sleep program will be conducted to compare the new sleep apnea screener against a gold standard.