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Multi-Modal Home Sleep Monitoring in Older Adults
Published on: January 26, 2019
Remote respiration monitoring system for sleep apnea detection
1Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering, Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi.
Unlabelled:
Sleep is a dynamic physiological process, its primary function being the restoration of the central nervous system. Because sleep disorders affect a significant part of the population the dynamic long term monitoring of human respiration plays a very important role in diagnosis and treatment.
Material And Methods:
We describe a remote monitoring system designed for in-hospital or at-home detection with a high degree of accuracy of sleep-related disorders in patients experiencing episodes of obstructive sleep apnea. Patient's respiratory rate is continuously measured by using wireless devices and then transfered to a central monitoring station via a wireless sensor network. The central monitoring station runs a respiration monitoring application that receives the patient's respiratory rate from the network and activates an alert upon detection of a sleep apnea episode.
Results:
A user-friendly graphical user interface was designed for the respiration monitoring application that displays patient's respiratory rates and sleep apnea alerts. A prototype of the system has been developed, implemented and tested.
Conclusions:
The described system allows persons with respiratory diseases or elderly to be monitored at their homes, as an alternative to medical supervision in hospitals.
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