7 results about "Sleep disorder breathing" patented technology

A patient interface for delivering a flow of air at positive pressure relative to ambient air pressure to an entrance to the patient's airways to ameliorate sleep disordered breathing comprises a seal-forming structure to form a seal with a region of the patient's face surrounding an entrance to the patient's airways, a positioning and stabilising structure to provide a force to hold the seal-forming structure in a therapeutically effective position on the patient's head, and a connector assembly adapted to connect to an air circuit. The connector assembly comprises a loop member removably and releasably secured in an aperture of an attachment region of the patient interface and an elbow assembly connected to the air circuit and repeatedly connectable to and detachable from the loop member. The elbow assembly comprises an elbow member and a clip member. The clip member comprises a structure separate and distinct from the elbow member and is connected to the elbow member and releasably connects the elbow assembly to the loop member, the elbow member forming a seal with the loop member when the elbow assembly and loop member are connected to each other.

This invention provides a bed-mounted sleep breathing state monitoring system and method. It collects bed-mounted pressure signals generated during the user's sleep process using an under-bed pressure sensor module. Based on these signals, it determines the start and end times of candidate sleep breathing abnormalities. The bed-mounted pressure signals from the start to the end time are then input into a pre-set deep neural network for feature extraction and classification, ultimately determining whether a sleep breathing abnormality event exists. This method accurately captures the complete temporal features of sleep breathing abnormalities without relying on fixed time window segmentation, effectively avoiding issues such as event truncation and feature aliasing. It achieves adaptive localization and automated detection of sleep breathing abnormalities, significantly improving the accuracy and completeness of sleep breathing abnormality event identification and reducing the risk of missed or false detections.

A neuromodulation system is provided herein. The system can include a neuromodulation device, an electronics package, which can be part of the neuromodulation device; an external controller; a sensor; and a computing device. The neuromodulation device can include a neuromodulation lead having a lead body configured to be bent to a desired shape and to maintain that shape in order to position the electrodes relative to neural and / or muscular structures when fully deployed. The neuromodulation device can also include an antenna including an upper and a lower coil electrically connected to each other in parallel. The computing device can execute a closed-loop algorithm based on physiological sensed data relating to sleep.

Methods and systems for treating sleep disordered breathing and assessing and improving efficacy of treatment of sleep disordered breathing re disclosed herein. According to some embodiments, the present technology includes a method of treating sleep disordered breathing with a neuromodulation system at least partially implanted in a patient having an airway compromised by an obstruction. The method includes delivering stimulation energy to a target nerve in the patient using an electrode of the neuromodulation system, wherein the target nerve is associated with patency of the airway, receiving sensor data from a sensor arrangement of the neuromodulation system, wherein the sensor data is indicative of airflow in the airway proximal to the obstruction, and assessing efficacy of the stimulation energy based at least in part on the received sensor data.

Method and apparatus for the non-invasive detection of certain breathing conditions, certain sleep disordered breathing conditions, or assessment of the person's myocardial contractility and its dynamic changes, comprising steps of: determining the sleep or wake status of a person, monitoring circulatory pulse waveforms and amplitude normalized pulse wave systolic upstrokes recorded from a person's body and determining at least one index of the upstroke to characterize the strength of the contraction of the heart during the systolic upstroke during a series of heart beats relating to a breathing cycle or an absent anticipated breathing cycle of the patient, and determining that a certain change in a breathing condition, a sleep disordered breathing condition, or assessment of the person's myocardial contractility and its dynamic changes, has occurred when a specific change in the sleep disordered breathing analysis, and the at least one index of the upstroke has been detected.

The invention relates to a patient ventilation or breathing device and components therefore for use in all forms of respiratory apparatus ventilation systems including invasive and non-invasive ventilation, positive airway pressure therapy, Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP), and particularly Bi-Level therapy and treatment for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) conditions such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), and for various other respiratory disorders and diseases. The invention particularly relates to a blower, to a blade, to a gasket, to a cable, to an impeller, to a gas inlet and inlet member, to an improved air path or fluid flow path and components thereof, and / or to a modular ventilation or breathing device as referred to above and particularly incorporating one or more of the other aspects of the invention.

An eye mask system for providing respiratory pressure therapy (RPT) for treatment of sleep disordered breathing, comprising: an eye mask configured to cover the user's eyes in use; one or more transducers configured to influence the user's sleep and / or detect characteristics of the user or the user's sleep. The eye mask system may comprise: a connection port to receive a pressurised flow of air or a flow generator; the eye mask system may comprise a plenum chamber, a seal-forming structure to form a seal with a region of the user's face and a vent to allow flow of gases exhaled by the user to ambient. The eye mask system may operate in a non-treatment mode in which RPT is not provided to the user, and a treatment mode in which RPT is provided to the user.