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Disposable Equipment For Efficient Home Sleep Apnea Testing And Minimizing Human Handling At The Sleep Laboratory, Abigail Quintos, Robert Tavella, Karl Doghramji
Disposable Equipment For Efficient Home Sleep Apnea Testing And Minimizing Human Handling At The Sleep Laboratory, Abigail Quintos, Robert Tavella, Karl Doghramji
Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit
As part of the disease mitigation strategy at the time of the pandemic, the Jefferson sleep laboratory has completely shifted towards utilization of the third-party vendor for HSATs. The vendor specializes in handling, shipping and disinfecting the HSAT equipment. They send the data electronically to the Jefferson sleep laboratory for interpretation.
We propose a single-use, fully disposable HSAT kit (WatchPAT One) to further minimize potential virus exposures and spread. The single-use design allows no return shipment, no charging or downloading, no cleaning and no infection transmission risk.
Since the equipment utilizes a different mechanism - peripheral arterial tone (PAT) signal …
Urine Drug Screening At The Sleep Disorder Center, Rohin Saroya, Md, Karl Doghramji, Md
Urine Drug Screening At The Sleep Disorder Center, Rohin Saroya, Md, Karl Doghramji, Md
Health Equity and Quality Improvement (HEQI) Summit
Aim
- Introduce UDS for all patients undergoing MSLT or MWT
- Eliminate false positive and negative results
- Optimize management of disorder
Goal
- To have 100% of patients undergoing an MSLT or MWT to have a UDS