Obtaining Accurate Signals At the base of all sleep units, the question is essentially the same: Is what you see on the screen an accurate reflection of what is physiologically going on with patients? The recorded and displayed signals have meaning to the trained eye, but are they reliable? If you can’t trust your equipment, or know how to effectively use it, says Bradley, you … [Read more...] about Spotlight on Sensors
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Spotlight on Sensors
Shedding Light on the Subtle Differences in Sensor Technology that can Make or Break a Sleep Test You may not know Don C. Bradley, but chances are you know his products or even worked with many of them. Before co-founding Braebon Medical Corp, (www.braebon.com) he created several sleep diagnostic products, including a well- known PSG system. More than two decades of … [Read more...] about Spotlight on Sensors
Worth the Wait – SoftGel by ResMed
ResMed management stayed off the gel mask bandwagon until they created a product that sleep apnea sufferers would actually use for the long term. Back in 2004, ResMed developers had a gel technology under review, but it wasn't quite good enough. Engineers eventually went back to the drawing board. For Don Darkin, Senior Vice President of the Patient Interface business at … [Read more...] about Worth the Wait – SoftGel by ResMed
Dig Deeper, or It Is About Time We Standardlize our Tools – Noam Hadas
I have been active in sleep for the past 15 years, and I am excited to see the explosive growth in activity and the recognition that sleep medicine has achieved over this period. Indeed, there are very few examples in medicine that showed such a move from a curiosity item hailed by some researchers, into a well-accepted and active medical specialty. Still, in at least one … [Read more...] about Dig Deeper, or It Is About Time We Standardlize our Tools – Noam Hadas