An interview with Prof. Wojciech Kukwa, head of the Department of Otolaryngology at Warsaw Medical University's Czerniakowski Hospital on Stępińska Street in Warsaw, and co-founder of the Clebre project.
Innovative technology will allow better monitoring of patients with sleep apnea
Published May 2, 2023 11:00
- Clebre is a solution to help diagnose and manage patients with sleep apnea.
- Sleep apnea is associated with impaired patency of the upper airway, which manifests itself as either snoring itself, which is the sound made by tissues vibrating during airflow, usually during inhalation, or obstruction of the upper airway.
- The causes may be developmental anomalies, but overweight and obesity come very clearly to the fore.
- The consequences of untreated apnea can include: hypertension, cardiac arrhythmias, ischemic heart disease, much higher risk of heart attack, much higher risk of stroke
- Snoring and sleep apnea are also a problem for the partners of the sufferer.
- Currently, diagnosing apnea requires spending one night in the hospital. The apparatus that tests the analyzed parameters is equipped with many sensors and electrodes to which the patient must be connected. Both this and the fact of spending the night in a foreign place affect the quality of sleep and the difficulty of diagnosis.
- The solution proposed by Clebre is a small device that weighs several grams and examines a patient's sleep quality. It can be used for a longer period of time, which means it will provide much better data for clinical evaluation.
- The solution works by using data from embedded sensors and analyzing that data through machine learning algorithms.
