According to TrendHunter.com, the top 20 trends in 2011 include wearable technology. Things like “earring telephones, holographic wrist-wear and visual hearing aids are examples of the fashionable and geeky can converge into a functionally chic product.”
Closer to home in the world of sleep apnea, one of the things patients complain about when using a traditional CPAP is how they feel tethered to the machine. The Transcend Sleep Apnea Therapy System eliminates that feeling because the device is so small and compact it fits comfortably on your head.
It may seem unbelievable to wear a CPAP on your head. Wearing anything on your head while you sleep may take a night or two to get used to. The same is true for Transcend.
Sleep therapy patients who have tried Transcend tell us that once they lay their head on the pillow they will hardly notice that Transcend is there. It is designed to move slightly on your head so you can move and turn in bed without breaking the mask seal.
Transcend is the first of its kind because it is worn on the head. Another new technology—and one that allows Transcend to go anywhere—with this new system is the heat moisture exchange humidification or HME. Used in hospitals every day to humidify ventilation, HME technology has never made its way to sleep apnea therapy until now.
Transcend is the first therapy system designed to fully accommodate HME humidification. Heat moisture exchange captures warm moisture from exhaled air and gives it back as you breathe. A small, simple, disposable HME filter eliminates the need for a traditional heated humidifier. That means no more water chamber, no more distilled water, no more cleaning, and no more messy spills.
As 2011 unfolds, other types of wearable technology will come to the surface. Watch for more from Somnetics and Transcend.
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