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GE Makes Big Move for Diagnosing Sleep Apnea - Is this a Game Changer?

Device Helps Address Clinical Challenges via Hospital-Based, Virtual Sleep Lab

GE Healthcare today introduced MARS(R) Virtual Sleep Lab (VSL), the first device to provide a streamlined view of quantitative cardiac and Sleep Apnea analysis from any GE-monitored inpatient bed, helping enhance speed of diagnosis. MARS VSL is being featured at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 59th Annual Scientific Session, held March 14 to 16 in Atlanta.


Integrating a Sleep Disorder diagnostic tool into hospital cardiac care represents an important advance, as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) impacts up to 50 percent of all heart disease patients.(1 ) When sleep disorders are diagnosed and treated early, it has been shown to improve cardiac conditions. Left undiagnosed, sleep apnea can increase heart disease risks.


More than 80 percent of individuals with moderate-to-severe OSA have not been clinically diagnosed.(2) Powered by the WideMed Ltd. Morpheus(R) Hx sleep apnea diagnosis program, MARS VSL enables OSA diagnosis right from the hospital bed. This transforms in-patient rooms into virtual sleep labs, and enables a bedside diagnosis by improving utilization of monitored data to provide diagnostic information. According to a recent Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine study, connecting the WideMed automated sleep analysis system to hospital monitors achieves results highly correlated with the standard test conducted in sleep labs-- polysomnography.(3)


"With MARS VSL, hospitals can quickly and effectively test cardiac patients for sleep apnea, utilizing existing physiological data for retrospective analysis," said Dr. Matthias Weber, vice president and GM of Global Diagnostic Cardiology at GE Healthcare. "Eliminating this delay in sleep apnea diagnosis supports GE's healthymagination vision for enhancing outcomes, enabling timely access to treatment and ultimately, reducing costs."


MARS VSL automatically reports on clinical data that is critical for making a sleep apnea diagnosis, such as apnea hypopnea index, sleep staging and respiratory events. Following a sleep apnea diagnosis, an AutoPAP device can be immediately prescribed while the patient is still in the hospital. This increases the chance that OSA patients can begin treatment before other complications develop.


"MARS VSL will help the sleep community reach previously undiagnosed patients, helping improve outcomes by detection of sleep apnea in a critical-care setting, and put the patient on the road to the appropriate sleep-related therapy," said Guarav Agarwal, GM of Respiratory Care at GE Healthcare. "Furthermore, MARS VSL will enable management of the patient rather than the management of the symptoms of this life-threatening disease."


SOURCE: GE Healthcare


References

(1) Milleran O, et al. Eur Heart J 2004 May; 25:728-734.

(2) The Medical Cost of Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea. V. Kapur, et al. SLEEP, Vol. 22, No. 66, 1999.

(3) An Automated Sleep-Analysis System Operated through a Standard Hospital Monitor. O. Amir, et al. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2010.

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this should be standard
nobody has checked my heart
Interesting that it is able to include Sleep Staging as well.

Rather misleading to suggest that "... connecting the WideMed automated sleep analysis system to hospital monitors achieves results highly correlated with the standard test conducted in sleep labs-- polysomnography ..." tho since it can't detect the full spectrum of some 80 sleep disorders. But great that it can indicate the most common sleep disorder: OSA. I would think a real step forward if it can do what it says it can.
I wonder how it stages. I will have to research it later when I get up.
Very interesting. I was recently admitted to the hospital due to respiratory failure. When then released me, they gave me an Rx for an Auto Bi Pap Machine. The Rx was based on O2 saturation level and Bi Pap was based on the difficulty I had exhaling in the Hospital. I was directed to have a Sleep & Titration Study. After the Sleep Study, my BiPap was replaced with a CPap with a pressure of 10. From me it speeded thing along to have started with the Rx from the hospital. About 6 weeks sooner for the treatment to start
Randal
Randal said:
Very interesting. I was recently admitted to the hospital due to respiratory failure. When then released me, they gave me an Rx for an Auto Bi Pap Machine. The Rx was based on O2 saturation level and Bi Pap was based on the difficulty I had exhaling in the Hospital. I was directed to have a Sleep & Titration Study. After the Sleep Study, my BiPap was replaced with a CPap with a pressure of 10. From me it speeded thing along to have started with the Rx from the hospital. About 6 weeks sooner for the treatment to start
Randal

I have a question that has little to do with the discussion. If I understand correctly, you were prescribed an AutoBiPap machine before a titration study was done. What pressures did they prescribe?
If I remember corectly it was 8 to 14. Tritation set it to 10

Banyon said:
Randal said:
Very interesting. I was recently admitted to the hospital due to respiratory failure. When then released me, they gave me an Rx for an Auto Bi Pap Machine. The Rx was based on O2 saturation level and Bi Pap was based on the difficulty I had exhaling in the Hospital. I was directed to have a Sleep & Titration Study. After the Sleep Study, my BiPap was replaced with a CPap with a pressure of 10. From me it speeded thing along to have started with the Rx from the hospital. About 6 weeks sooner for the treatment to start
Randal

I have a question that has little to do with the discussion. If I understand correctly, you were prescribed an AutoBiPap machine before a titration study was done. What pressures did they prescribe?

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