Sleep apnea is a disorder where one or more pauses may occur while breathing or having shallow breaths during sleep. The breathing pauses can last anywhere from a couple of seconds to a few minutes at a time. These pauses may occur at least thirty times or more during an hour and normal breathing will resume with a choking sound or a loud snort. This is referred to as sleep apnea and is an ongoing condition that can interrupt a person’s sleep. There are over 650,00 deaths that occur each year according to the OSA due to this condition.

What are the Health Effects of Sleep Apnea?

Sleep apnea is a serious condition and often goes undiagnosed among many people. When a person’s breathing becomes shallow they will move from deep sleep into light sleep. This causes their rest to be poor which can cause them to feel tired throughout the day. Sleep apnea is often the leading cause of excessive daytime sleepiness due to their shallow breathing interrupting their sleep. One of the drawbacks is the condition often goes undiagnosed since the majority of doctors can’t detect the condition during a routine office visit and no blood test is able to diagnose the condition either.

How Do You Find Out if You Have This Condition?

There is home sleep study equipment designed specifically to help people detect of they suffer from sleep apnea or not. People will often ignore their sleep apnea symptoms because they are unable to recognize them or they may not have the time to participate in an overnight sleep study to find out if they have the condition. This sleep-related breathing disorder is serious and it’s believed people who suffer from it are five times more likely to develop a heart condition over their lifetime.

The issue with sleep apnea is it prevents people from getting a deep and restorative sleep. There have been studied conducted that show lack of good sleep is linked to heart arrhythmias, depression, and memory loss. This is one of the reasons why home sleep study equipment is an ideal option for people who believe they may be suffering from the condition. They are able to have access to reliable results and will receive an accurate diagnosis.

How Does the Equipment Work?

One of the benefits of using home sleep study devices is it can be conducted in the comfort of your own home. You don’t have to take the time to go to an overnight clinic to find out if you suffer from sleep apnea. You’re able to find the results you need and will obtain an accurate assessment of whether you suffer from sleep apnea. One of the other benefits is the results you receive by using this equipment at home is the test results will be more accurate.

Achieving a full REM sleep is difficult in an unfamiliar sleep environment no matter how secure or comfortable it may be. Being able to have a sleep study machine in the comfort of your own home will raise the potential of achieving a full REM sleep while also ensuring a higher chance you’ll replicate the symptoms that may or may not have been reported otherwise. There have been several types of home sleep study equipment in the past to help determine if a person suffers from sleep apnea, a few of these devices are also available on our website.

What Equipment is Available?

We have a few sleep study machines available on our website which including the following:

• Apnea Link Air
• Alice NightOne
• WatchPat

These are our top of the line devices we have available for people to receive a reliable diagnosis on whether they’re a sufferer of sleep apnea. Each of these devices is available through our website and offers different channels of information.

The ApneaLink Air, for example, is reliable, compact, easy to use, and light weight. This home sleep testing device is type II and is capable of recording up to five channels of information that include the following:

• Respiratory effort
• Pulse
• Oxygen saturation
• Nasal Flow
• Snoring

The device comes with a newly added Start/Stop button and has a one-touch operation and Test Complete light to let patients know when their evaluation has been completed. Our ApneaLink Air is able to provide a detailed and accurate diagnosis and effective report that meets CMS and AASM definitions for the hypopnea scoring guidelines. This advanced diagnostic solution also includes the differentiation between central and obstructive apneas, along with Cheyne-Stokes probability detection.

This sleep study machine is only one example of one of the products we have available to provide people with a reliable diagnosis on whether they suffer from sleep apnea. People are able to administer the test themselves from the comfort of their own home without having to take the time to participate in a sleep study. Please feel free to contact us and to start using one of the best home sleep study devices in the industry today.

VirtuOx is the leader in home sleep tests and pulse oximetry.