Wearable sleep monitoring patch created for accurate sleep apnea detection at home

News-Medical.Net May 24, 2023
Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM

The prevalence of sleep disorders, like sleep apnea, is on the rise in the U.S., but current protocols to conduct clinically accepted assessments are expensive and inconvenient.

Georgia Tech researchers have created a wearable device to accurately measure obstructive sleep apnea -; when the body repeatedly stops and restarts breathing for a period -; as well as the quality of sleep people get when they are at rest.

Under conventional methods, people who are suspected of having some sleep issue or disorder must go to a medical facility, where they are monitored overnight and tethered to a series of wired probes that record brain, eye, and muscle activity.

The wearable sleep monitor patch developed by a team of researchers and...

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