JOEL BLIXT
WatchPAT UNIFIED PROVIDING MORE INNOVATION IN HST
S imple . 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 . 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 :
• Peripheral arterial tone ( PAT )
• Oximetry
• Actigraphy
• Heart rate
• Snoring volume
• Body position .
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 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 .
WatchPAT . Simplicity , Accuracy , Reliability , and Speed that you can count on . Contact me for additional information about how the Watch- PAT Unified can add to your DSM practice .
JOEL BLIXT WatchPAT Dental Sales Manager Itamar Medical Inc . 940.232.4856 bjoel @ itamar-medical . com www . itamar-medical . com