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Abstract

Abstract: DESCRIPTION (Applicant's abstract): Sleep apnea or sleep disordered breathing (SDA) occurs commonly among patients who have a stroke and may significantly complicate post-stroke recovery. SDB can be effectively treated and yet this treatment is not made available to patients on neurological intensive care units (NICU) owing to the problems of organizing requisite materials and expertise. Thus, the patients fail to get the needed treatment at the most critical recovery time when treatment would probably be the most beneficial. This project seeks to correct this problem by developing and apnea detection and reporting (ADR) system for use with existing monitoring equipment on the NICU. This system provides for easy, rapid identification of SDB events permitting starting treatment, if needed, shortly after entry to the NICU. The system provides data storage, convenient display and printouts of events and event rates. It uses technology developed by IM Systems for accurate recording and automatic detection of events. The system will automatically alert the staff when excessive SDB events occur. Phase 1 develops a prototype and evaluates its accuracy. Phase 2 improves the design and extends the use of system to a wide range of patients in the NICU.

Thesaurus Terms:
biomedical equipment development, intensive care, patient monitoring device, sleep apnea
biomedical automation, computer graphics /printing, computer program /software, computer system hardware, information display, stroke
clinical research, human subject, polysomnography

Institution:	INDIVIDUAL MONITORING SYS, INC. (IM SYS)
	1055 TAYLOR AVE, STE 300
	BALTIMORE, MD 21286
Fiscal Year:	2002
Department:
Project Start:	01-JUL-2002
Project End:	31-JAN-2004
ICD:	NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE
IRG:	ZRG1