Home healthcare devices. Challenge of CPAP design for effective home treatment

Reliability of home CPAP titration with different automatic CPAP devices

BACKGROUND CPAP titration may be completed by automatic apparatus. However, differences in pressure behaviour could interfere with the reliability of pressure recommendations. Our objective was to compare pressure behaviour and effective pressure recommendations between three Automatic CPAP machines (Autoset Spirit, Remstar Auto, GK 420). METHODS Sixteen untreated obstructive sleep apnea pati...

Cost-effective Design of Real-time Home Healthcare Telemonitoring

Home care devices: a new challenge for the profession.

of hospital beds and wheelchairs. But much has changed since then, and the combination of an aging population and increasingly sophisticated, easy-touse medical equipment has led to an explosion of home and other non-hospital-based healthcare. From infant apnea monitoring and home dialysis to the defibrillators now common in public spaces, sophisticated and life-saving equipment and treatments ...

A home monitoring system for nasal CPAP.

A compact portable sensing system (PSS) was developed for home monitoring of patients with obstructive sleep apnea treated with nasal continuous positive-airway pressure (CPAP). The system consisted of a solid-state pressure sensor connected with plastic tubing to the side port of the nasal CPAP mask, a power supply, and a strip chart recorder. The device was validated against standard polysomn...

AT-HOME 2.0 - An Educational Framework for Home-based Healthcare

This paper intends to describe some of the primary social and cultural dynamics in South African home-based healthcare, using ethnographic case study material and design methodology. This constitutes a detailed narrative of the “care experience” in a poor community, emphasising the needs of and barriers to educational information, particularly concerning caregivers. In reaction to this context,...