New diagnosis and treatment of sleep apnea apparatus into the testing phase

Watermark Medical is a new company, provides a way for sleep apnea syndrome diagnosis of household equipment and Web-based services.

Sleep apnea syndrome to snoring and sleep apnea for characteristics, is a serious health problem, often have no access to Diagnostics. The disease is typically used by the Organization on the back of the throat to the lungs caused by respiratory form obstacles, such as diabetes, heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure and severe chronic symptoms such as depression, the United States each year for sleep apnea syndrome of health expenditure amounting to us $ 34.

United States now sleep apnea syndrome diagnosis mainly in sleep specialist clinics, patients need to work together with the clinics for sleep two nights of observation, the diagnostic fee is usually reached us $ 4000, which is typically used by insurance companies, and patients share.

The doctor points out that, because of the costs and inconvenience in sleep apnea symptoms before they become serious, patients often do not go to the doctor and seek treatment.

Watermark Medical launched this sleep apnea syndrome treatment instrument with sensor head, the Intel Atom microprocessor-driven company, you can test the data, including blood oxygen saturation concentrations, air flow, pulse and snore intensity, etc.

Patients with this device sleep from one to two nights, then returned to the clinic.

Instrument data is downloaded to the computer, and then sent over the network to a sleep professionals network, by the professional staff of a 48 hours available to the physician a diagnosis and treatment recommendations. Each to do a test, usually charges $ 250 to 450, doctors can get $ 100 ~ 150.

To date, has 3500 patients use the Watermark's equipment has been tested, each month, over 1000 doctors prescription 4000 test.