Dental Sleep Medicine Insider May 2015 | Page 12

Joel Blixt WatchPAT Dental Sales Manager Itamar Medical Inc. M: 940 232-4856 [email protected] www.itamar-medical.com Simple. Accurate. Reliable. Fast. WatchPAT Unified Providing More Innovation in HST Simple. Accurate. Reliable. Fast. Those words appropriately describe the WatchPAT Unified, now the most innovative home sleep apnea testing device available to diagnose Sleep Apnea available. This is due to the patented Peripheral Arterial Tone (PAT) technology that created a new paradigm in sleep diagnostics. The WatchPAT was created to provide superior patient comfort, while delivering optimal clinical data, with minimal resources required to train patients on the use and subsequent uploading of the recorded data. Along with being the only HSAT capable of measuring True Sleep Time, the WatchPAT is the easiest home sleep test to use for patients. So what is True Sleep Time? Good question. True Sleep Time allows for more accurate scoring and can decrease the risk of misdiagnosis in 20% of patients. True sleep time, not the device recording time, improves the accuracy of the respiratory indices, for severity of those indices and test sensitivity and specificity. Rigorously tested simultaneously with PSG, the WatchPAT has the highest accuracy and specificity to polysomnography (PSG) of all home sleep apnea tests. It is FDA cleared to determine sleep stages of light, deep and REM sleep and allows for the diagnosis of REM-related OSA, sleep quality and sleep efficiency. The WatchPAT recorded channels allow for much more robust data to be recorded versus other devices that record just a couple channels. The notion that time is money is not lost on the WatchPAT, especially when you have a busy office to run. The WatchPAT can be prepared with patient data in 5 minutes; a clinical team member can instruct the patient on how to use the WatchPAT in 5 minutes; and when the patient returns the next day, the data from the WatchPAT can be uploaded and a sleep report generated in 5 minutes. It’s that simple. The bottom line in home sleep apnea testing is that it must be easy for the patient to use to get a good night of sleep data, and it has to be simple for the team when dispensing the unit and uploading that data to generate a sleep report that is easily understood by the clinical team and most importantly, the patient. The WatchPAT has been used to test over 1 Million patients and is the most thoroughly studied HSAT available with over 400 peer reviewed studies. The WatchPAT measures six channels which include: WatchPAT. Simplicity, Accuracy, Reliability, and Speed that you can count on. • Peripheral arterial tone (PAT) • Actigraphy • Snoring volume Contact me for additional information about how the WatchPAT Unified can add to your DSM practice. • Oximetry • Heart rate • Body position Joel Blixt: 940 232-4856 • [email protected]