Sleep Diagnostic Device With Wireless Internet Interface

描述（由申请人提供）：先进医疗电子（AME）提议开发一种可穿戴睡眠诊断设备，用于传统睡眠实验室之外，该设备使用新的蜂窝智能手机技术通过互联网向监测设施发送传感器信号。这将允许在研究期间频繁地进行自动或手动信号质量检查。该设备将提高家庭睡眠研究的成功率。由于用力带、手指脉搏血氧仪和鼻导管等传感器可能会脱落，人们担心需要重复进行家庭睡眠测试，这限制了家庭睡眠研究的接受程度。在拟议的系统中，如果发现传感器问题，技术人员可以收到警报，以决定是否应该联系患者在家纠正传感器的放置，或者是否已经收集了足够的数据来进行可评分的测试。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体成本，并最终扩大睡眠障碍测试的使用范围。一项人体睡眠测试计划将进行，以比较新的睡眠呼吸暂停筛查与黄金标准。

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.