SommaPatch study results similar to standard in-lab polysomnography results in recording sleep patterns.- Somnarus Sleep Diagnostics.

A 174-patient study was presented at SLEEP 2017, the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies and showed that results from the SomnaPatch, from Somnarus Sleep Diagnostics, agreed with results from standard in-lab polysomnography 87% of the time. Polysomnography is a type of sleep study that records changes in the body that happen during sleep, such as brain waves, blood oxygen level and heart rate..

A separate study found that 38 of 39 patients were able to collect at least four hours of sleep data at home, the American Academy of Sleep Medicine said in the statement.

SomnaPatch records respiratory patterns, pulse oximetry data and estimates sleep time based on proprietary algorithms and methods protected by several issued and pending US and foreign patents. Sleep testing with SomnaPatch is reimbursable by most medical insurances.

Comment: When someone is suspected of suffering from sleep apnea, they are often sent for a sleep study (also known as polysomnography). This involves their spending the night sleeping at a clinic, with numerous electrodes hard-wired to their head. There are diagnostic devices that they can use at home, although these can also be rather cumbersome. By contrast, the new SomnaPatch is quite simple and � according to the recently-released results of a study � almost as accurate as polysomnography.