Device for simultaneous diagnosis and quantitative analysis of apnea and other diseases

The invention describes a device for the recognition and diagnosis, outside hospital, of the sleep apnoea syndrome in which the physiological parameters of heart rate, breathing and snoring sounds, degree of oxygen saturation of the blood and the posture of the patient are recorded with a mobile dev...

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Main Author GRIEBEL, PETER
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 30.06.1998
Edition6
Subjects
BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS
DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF,TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, E.G. STENTS
DIAGNOSIS
FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS
FIRST-AID KITS
FOMENTATION
HUMAN NECESSITIES
HYGIENE
IDENTIFICATION
MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE
ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES
PROSTHESES
SURGERY
TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS
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Summary:The invention describes a device for the recognition and diagnosis, outside hospital, of the sleep apnoea syndrome in which the physiological parameters of heart rate, breathing and snoring sounds, degree of oxygen saturation of the blood and the posture of the patient are recorded with a mobile device and stored in encoded form. The stored data are transferred to a computer and then analysed. The mobile device comprises a recording and storage unit (2) and the following measurement sensors: three ECG electrodes (3), a laryngeal microphone (4), an oximeter finger sensor (5) and a position sensor (6). The device according to the invention permits diagnosis outside hospital of sleep apnoea, the significance of which is comparable with diagnoses based on investigations in a hospital sleep laboratory.
Bibliography:Application Number: GR19980400505T