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Slightly off-topic, but as someone in the field, what is your opinion of the apnea-detecting functionality of smart watches?
by teamonkey 1y ago
Slightly off-topic, but as someone in the field, what is your opinion of the apnea-detecting functionality of smart watches?
- reverendsteveii 1y agoI'm in the field, I built the software in your cpap machine and home sleep study that we use to test and treat them. It comes down to microarousals, which is where you wake up just enough to disrupt the sleep cycle without actually becoming consciously aware. A smart watch can detect that, and it can also measure o2 saturation in your blood. To my mind that means that a smart watch can determine whether your sleep is interrupted and by how much, and even gather some evidence that apnea could be among potential causes (there are other ways to have low o2 saturation) but I don't think it can actually diagnose.