| 摘要 |
A method and an apparatus are described for the ambulatory detection and diagnosis of the sleep apnea syndrome, in which the physiological parameters of heart rate, respiratory and snoring sounds, the degree of oxygen saturation of the blood and the bodily position of the patient are measured and stored in coded form by means of a mobile apparatus. The stored data are transferred to a computer and then analyzed. The mobile apparatus comprises a detection and storage unit and the following pickups: three EKG electrodes, one laryngeal microphone, an oximeter finger sensor and a position pickup. The apparatus according to the invention permits an ambulatory diagnosis of sleep apnea, which is comparable in its meaningfulness to diagnoses based on stationary sleep laboratory tests.
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