Thursday May 23, 2024
The Sleep Revolution project – shaking up the future of sleep medicine
Funded by a 15 million-euro grant from the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme for health demographic change and wellbeing, the Sleep Revolution project is an ambitious one that aims to shake up current diagnostic methods for sleep-disordered breathing (SBD).
In this episode of OnAir, we talk to the head of the project, Professor Erna Sif Arnardóttir. She tells us how she believes strong collaboration between the project’s partners convinced the EU that the Sleep Revolution project could make real change, including:
- Bringing advanced sleep diagnostics from the hospital into patient’s homes
- Encouraging patients to participate in their own care with the help of technical solutions
- Developing different personalised treatment options for patients with SDB
- Creating a new European Sleep Questionnaire to help capture the whole sleep profile of a person for clinical and research purposes
Prof. Arnardóttir also shares her thoughts on topics such as the importance of multi-night diagnostics, whether AHI is sufficient as parameter to classify the severity of OSA, and how digital tools – such as apps and wearables – and cooperation between different entities could transform the future of sleep medicine.
Guest:
- Prof. Erna Sif Arnardóttir - Director of the Reykjavik University Sleep Institute; Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering and Department of Computer Science at Reykjavik University, Iceland
Host:
- Nina Wiklund is ResMed’s Global Medical Marketing Content Lead, and has a burning enthusiasm for clinical research. She is especially interested in the additional insights and possibilities real-world evidence can add to existing RCTs.
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Disclaimers:
- This content is intended for health professionals only.
- This testimonial is a genuine and documented account of the individual’s response to treatment. Outcomes and results may vary, and this individual’s response does not provide any indication, warranty or guarantee that other people will have the same or a similar experience. This presentation is based on the professional presenter experience, practice and on recent available relevant data which is not intended to be understood as state of the art.
- Professor Erna Sif Arnardóttir was provided with a nominal financial incentive for providing the following testimonial. Professor Erna Sif Arnardóttir will not receive any discounts or further incentives as a result of this testimonial.
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