The purpose of this study is to develop an efficient home-based polysomnography device, which allows, through GPRS,continuous real-time monitoring from the sleep lab based in the hospital, in order to decrease the failure rate of home-based recordings.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
21
Portable polysomnograph will be placed at home around 7:00PM. The Sleep Box (wireless monitoring device) will be left near the patient, to allow real-time GPRS transmission of recorded sleep parameters to the sleep lab.
CHU St Pierre
Brussels, Belgium
Quality of Polysomnographic Recordings
Quality of recordings will be graded according to Redline S et al (SLEEP 1998): Unsatisfactory, poor, fair, good, very good,excellent. Unsatisfactory and poor recordings are considered as failures.
Time frame: 1 week
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