http://blog.cpap.co.uk All about CPAP & Sleep Apnoea Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:18:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jane Phare of the New Zealand Herald reported this weekend how a hidden epidemic is costing the country billions of dollars. The sleep deprivation epidemic is costing the economy in lost productivity even though treatment is relatively cheap. Like we often found here on the CPAP blog, NZ researchers also link ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/12/56-of-30-60yo-kiwis-have-osa Here's a weird news item, from the States:  ADRIAN — An Adrian woman reported to police Friday/Nov. 23 that she found a machine used by sleep apnea patients in her front yard. According to an Adrian Police Department report released Monday/Nov. 26, the woman, 60, found the continuous positive airway pressure ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/cpap-machine-found Loughborough Police announced this week they installed a Cell Occupant and Occupancy Monitoring System (COMS) into their refurbished cells. This monitoring system features radar equipment capable of detection breathing trouble such as experienced by someone choking on their vomit after a night out or by a sleep apnoea patient. InLoughborough.com reports ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/police-cells-equipped-with-sleep-apnoea-detectors Sleep Apnea is a complex disorder and even though I think I understand it all pretty well, there's nothing like hearing about it from a real doctor (which I'm not). For that reason, I read Michael Rack's blog, Steven Poceta's site and Michael Breus' blog on WebMD. They kow what ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/another-doctor-blogging-about-osa-cpap Next in line for our weekly look at who's who in CPAP land: ProBasics. PMI is the company, ProBasics their umbrella name for their health care range of products. The ProBasics range includes wheelchairs and oxygen regulators and since recently also CPAP. The ProBasics Zzz-PAP with optional integrated heated humidifier quickly ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/cpap-market-players-probasics I've been reading Dr. Michael Breus' WebMD Blog called Sleep Disorders for months and only just discovered their video section. In their Video Section, they have hundreds of short clips on a variety of health topics, ranging from ADD/ADHD and Cancer down to Depression, Diabetes, Health for the Heart and ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/sleep-apnea-videos-on-webmd We can probably share one of these sad stories every single day but let's sum up a couple of weeks worth of news related to sleepy drivers who kill and injure themselves and others. In previous post we highlighted how a lot of truck drivers are at risk from OSA,  the ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/sleepy-drivers-make-headlines-again A somewhat surreal question but it was actually asked in an online forum, this particular user wondered how a zero gravity environment would affect his CPAP machine. I don't know whether he's a mate of Richard Branson, about to have a space holiday, but it's an interesting topic regardless of ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/osa-and-cpap-whilst-in-space New research, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, shows that CPAP therapy lowers cortisol in apneic patients. Cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, is known to increase blood pressure, reduce immune system activity and lower bone formation, amongst many other effects. Doctor Vgontzas of Penn State University ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/cpap-lowers-cortisol CPAP is making sleep apnoea sufferers around the world sleep again. Within a 24 hours window, these three stories reached my inbox. In each, a sleep apnoea patient describes their CPAP fortune. If you suffer from sleep apnoea, read these success stories. It could be you getting your life back ... http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2007/11/cpap-users-in-the-news