Development and validation of a novel non‐contact monitor of nocturnal respiration for identifying sleep‐disordered breathing in patients with heart failure

摘要

AimsAt least 50% of patients with heart failure (HF) may have sleep‐disordered breathing (SDB). Overnight in‐hospital polysomnography (PSG) is considered the gold standard for diagnosis, but a lack of access to such testing contributes to under‐diagnosis of SDB. Therefore, there is a need for simple and reliable validated methods to aid diagnosis in patients with HF. The aim of this study was to investigate the accuracy of a non‐contact type IV screening device, SleepMinder^TM (SM), compared with in‐hospital PSG for detecting SDB in patients with HF.