Sleep apnea is an increasingly more common condition due in part to increased urbanization and exposure to city pollution. Typically, sleep apnea is defined by intermittent cessation of breathing during sleep. The danger with this is the loss of oxygen to the brain and other organs. Detection of this condition has always been extremely difficult – but recently a team of researchers has devised a new method for detecting advanced sleep apnea – a very common sleeping disorder.
In a paper published in the November issue of the respected journal Sleep – top researchers from respected universities in the USA have devised a less intrusive method for the detection of sleep apnea than the current widely used polysomnograph technique. This method of watching clients in their sleep has diagnostic limitations and the risk of increasing patient anxiety. Patients have to stay overnight and be wired up to 20 or more monitoring devices. The procedure is far from ideal.
In the new method, a thermal infrared camera is used to detect the breathing waveforms that a patient produces as he or she sleeps. This new method is an imaging based and thus, multi-dimensional
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