Traditional approaches for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosis are apt to using
multiple channels of physiological signals to detect apnea events by dividing the signals into …

Study objectives To assess the accuracy of WatchPAT (WP—Itamar-Medical, Caesarea,
Israel) enhanced with a novel systolic upstroke analysis coupled with respiratory movement …

The number of people suffering from a sleep disorder is growing considerably, with
obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) being the most common one. Unfortunately, it is …

Abnormal respiratory rates have been shown to be an important predictor of serious clinical
illness, but respiratory rate is a vital sign that is often not recorded because methods for …

Sleep apnea is a serious and severely under-diagnosed sleep-related respiration disorder
characterized by repeated disrupted breathing events during sleep. It is diagnosed via …

Sleep apnea is a common and severe sleep-related respiratory disorder. Since the
symptoms of sleep apnea are often ambiguous, it is difficult for a physician to decide …

There are several daunting considerations in writing this chapter, especially given the
potential scope and depth of the relevant material. Principal among these is the certainty that …

To meet the demands on a comfortable screening, or even diagnostic, equipment without
interfering with the sleep, this study develops a level IV portable system, equipped with two …

In this study we compare the traditionally scoring of apnea hypopnea events (based on the
respiratory flow with oxygen desaturation) with the obtained by applying an alternative …

Abstract The “Gold Standard” for Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea Syndrome (SAHS) diagnosis is the
study of Polysomnography (PSG) in a sleep laboratory. It consists of connect to patient's …