Less costly, more accessible and as effective: Simplified treatment for sleep apnea
Wednesday, March 11, 2009 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Diagnosing and treating obstructive sleep apnea may soon become much less expensive and arduous, thanks to new research showing that a simplified program using experienced nurses, home ambulatory diagnosis and auto-titrating continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines to titrate CPAP pressures is not inferior to the traditional model which relies on specialist physicians and sleep studies.