Erschienen in:
17.11.2022 | Sleep Breathing Physiology and Disorders • Commentary
Accuracy of continuous positive airway pressure devices: the devil is in the details, the best is yet to come
verfasst von:
Dany Jaffuel, Jean-Pierre Mallet, AbdelKebir Sabil
Erschienen in:
Sleep and Breathing
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Ausgabe 4/2023
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Excerpt
Despite major advances in alternative therapies [
1], continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) remains the main choice treatment for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) improving sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, and quality-of-life proportional to CPAP adherence [
2,
3]. Through the development of new communication and data storage technology, there is a growing interest in telemonitoring-guided interventions of CPAP therapy as illustrated by the 2019 American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) clinical practice guidelines [
2]. In a 10-year follow-up study, the European Sleep Apnea Database network (26 countries) reported that during the 2019–2020 period, 50% and 73% of the 36 sleep centers used telemedicine as a method for home CPAP titration and follow-up evaluations, respectively [
4]. Ten years ago, the same questionnaires had no items regarding telemedicine practices. …