CN110811547A - Multi-guide sleep monitor and sleep monitoring method - Google Patents

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CN110811547A
CN110811547A CN201910941883.9A CN201910941883A CN110811547A CN 110811547 A CN110811547 A CN 110811547A CN 201910941883 A CN201910941883 A CN 201910941883A CN 110811547 A CN110811547 A CN 110811547A
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The invention discloses a multi-guide sleep monitor and a sleep monitoring method, comprising a sensing unit, a host, a display and a wireless communication unit; the sensing unit comprises an electrocardio patch, an electroencephalogram patch, a mandible myoelectric patch, a leg-movement myoelectric patch, an eye-movement myoelectric patch, a snore detector, a pulse blood oxygen saturation degree detector, a pressure-sensitive airflow sensor, a heat-sensitive airflow sensor, a body position sensor and an abdominal and thoracic breathing sensor; the host is used for carrying out pattern recognition on the monitoring data and analyzing to give an auxiliary diagnosis result; the display is used for displaying the measured value, the information of tracing the historical measurement, the occurrence time and the notification object; the wireless communication unit is used for synchronously sending the monitoring data to the cloud. The invention uses the signal input ends of 35 channels to obtain the sleep data, actually meets the basic requirement of primary monitoring, can be used as other types of monitors, has wide application, and greatly reduces the workload of reading the images by analyzing and identifying the host.

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Multi-guide sleep monitor and sleep monitoring method
Technical Field
The invention relates to electronic circuits and medical treatment, and belongs to the technical field of medical treatment and electrical.
Background
In recent years, the incidence of sleep-wake disorders has been increasing with the pace of life and increasing social pressure. According to statistics, the incidence rate of sleep-wake disorder in the world is 9% -15%, and the economic loss caused by the sleep-wake disorder reaches hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The '2015 Chinese sleep index report' shows that about 31.2% of people in China have serious sleep problems. Long-term sleep disorders not only reduce the quality of life and affect the work and life of an individual, but also cause a series of physical and mental diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases, cancers, depression and the like. There are 6 or more people over the age of 50 who have sleep problems, of which 70% are sleep disordered breathing and a significant number die of them each year. The hazard is very serious.
With the development of society, people have higher requirements on quality of life, particularly sleep quality, and more people are aware of the problem of sleep and are interested in sleep monitoring.
Although more than two thousand hospitals have established sleep monitoring rooms in China. However, due to various reasons such as system factors, low equipment level, lack of hardware conditions, insufficient understanding of the public on sleep disorder and the like, compared with foreign countries, the research, monitoring and treatment of sleep diseases cannot meet the requirements of social development, the monitored data variety is insufficient, and the reading and analyzing efficiency is too low.
Disclosure of Invention
The purpose of the invention is as follows: provides a polysomnography monitor and a sleep monitoring method to solve the problems.
The technical scheme is as follows: a multi-guide sleep monitor comprises a sensing unit, a host, a display and a wireless communication unit;
the sensing unit comprises an electrocardio patch, an electroencephalogram patch, a mandible myoelectric patch, a leg-movement myoelectric patch, an eye-movement myoelectric patch, a snore detector, a pulse blood oxygen saturation degree detector, a pressure-sensitive airflow sensor, a heat-sensitive airflow sensor, a body position sensor and an abdominal and thoracic respiration sensor and is used for acquiring sleep data;
the host is used for carrying out pattern recognition on the monitoring data and analyzing to give an auxiliary diagnosis result;
the display is used for displaying the measured value, the information of the retroactive historical measurement, the occurrence time and the notification object;
and the wireless communication unit is used for synchronously sending the monitoring data to the cloud.
According to one aspect of the invention, the electrocardio patch is fixed at a position right below the clavicles on the left and right sides and between the ribs 4 and 5 on the left side, and the heartbeat is monitored; the electroencephalogram patch is fixed at the top of the head and used for monitoring electroencephalogram; the mandibular myoelectricity patch is fixed at the mandibular position and used for monitoring the mandibular movement; the leg movement myoelectric patch is fixed at the ankle position and used for monitoring leg movement; the eye movement myoelectric patch is fixed at the position of 1cm above and 1cm below the outer canthus of the eye to monitor the eye movement.
According to one aspect of the invention, the snore detector comprises a sound wave detector which is fixed near the trachea, and whether snore exists or not and the snore condition are judged according to detected sound wave data.
According to one aspect of the invention, the pulse oximetry saturation detector includes a pressure sensitive sensor that detects pulse and oximetry saturation by being clipped to a fingertip.
According to one aspect of the invention, the pressure-sensitive airflow sensor and the heat-sensitive airflow sensor comprise a gas detector, a pressure-sensitive sensor and a heat-sensitive sensor which are fixed at the mouth and nose, and the existence of respiration and the respiration conditions are judged by detecting the magnitude of the respiratory airflow and the temperature of the respiratory airflow.
According to one aspect of the invention, the posture sensor is fixed on the trunk and detects whether the posture of the user changes.
According to one aspect of the invention, the abdominal-thoracic respiration sensor comprises an inductive sensor, which is mounted on an elastic belt and is sleeved on the chest and the abdomen of a user, and the respiration condition is judged by detecting the movement of the chest and the abdomen of the user.
According to one aspect of the invention, the device further comprises an SD card memory for storing the monitoring data, and when the network connection is not available, the SD card is taken out and read out on the special machine.
A sleep monitoring method specifically comprises the following steps:
step 1, fixing an electrocardio patch, an electroencephalogram patch, a mandible myoelectricity patch, a leg movement myoelectricity patch, an eye movement myoelectricity patch, a snore detector, a pulse blood oxygen saturation degree detector, a pressure-sensitive airflow sensor, a heat-sensitive airflow sensor, a body position sensor and an abdominal and thoracic breathing sensor of a sensing unit at corresponding positions respectively, and collecting various data of a user during sleeping;
step 2, the host computer analyzes and processes various data collected by the sensing unit;
step 3, displaying a processing result by a display, wherein the processing result comprises an electroencephalogram, an electrocardiogram, an electromyogram, snore, pulse, blood oxygen saturation and various sleep breathing parameters;
step 4, the SD card memory stores various recording data;
and 5, the wireless communication unit synchronously sends the data to the cloud for analysis and recording.
According to one aspect of the invention, when abnormal monitoring data occurs, an alarm is given out and is synchronously uploaded to the cloud, and when data threatening the health of a user occurs, remote help seeking is carried out.
Has the advantages that: the sleep data acquisition system can acquire the sleep data by adopting the signal input ends of 35 channels, the variety of the monitored data exceeds the standard PSG, the basic requirement of primary monitoring is actually met, the sleep data acquisition system can be used as other types of monitors, the application is wide, the host computer analyzes and identifies, and the workload of reading the images is greatly reduced.
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The sleep data are acquired by using various sensors and signal input ends of 35 channels, the monitored data variety exceeds the standard PSG, the basic requirement of primary monitoring is actually met, the problem that the data variety monitored by the sensors is not enough is solved, the monitored data are analyzed and identified by using a host, and the problem that the image reading analysis efficiency is too low is solved.
As shown in fig. 1, in this embodiment, a polysomnography monitor includes a sensing unit, a host, a display and a wireless communication unit;
the sensing unit comprises an electrocardio patch, an electroencephalogram patch, a mandible myoelectric patch, a leg-movement myoelectric patch, an eye-movement myoelectric patch, a snore detector, a pulse blood oxygen saturation degree detector, a pressure-sensitive airflow sensor, a heat-sensitive airflow sensor, a body position sensor and an abdominal and thoracic respiration sensor and is used for acquiring sleep data;
the host is used for carrying out pattern recognition on the monitoring data and analyzing to give an auxiliary diagnosis result;
the display is used for displaying the measured value, the information of the retroactive historical measurement, the occurrence time and the notification object;
and the wireless communication unit is used for synchronously sending the monitoring data to the cloud.
In a further embodiment, the electrocardio patch is fixed at a position right below the clavicles on the left and the right sides and between the 4 ribs and the 5 ribs on the left side, and the heartbeat is monitored; the electroencephalogram patch is fixed at the top of the head and used for monitoring electroencephalogram; the mandibular myoelectricity patch is fixed at the mandibular position and used for monitoring the mandibular movement; the leg movement myoelectric patch is fixed at the ankle position and used for monitoring leg movement; the eye movement myoelectric patch is fixed at the position of 1cm above and 1cm below the outer canthus of the eye to monitor the eye movement.
In a further embodiment, the electrocardiogram patch monitors heart beats, draws an electrocardiogram, and is used for reflecting heart rate changes of a user and recording heart states; the electroencephalogram patch monitors brain waves, draws an electroencephalogram and is used for providing data for an electroencephalogram-based rehabilitation instrument; the mandibular myoelectric patch monitors mandibular movement for determining whether a user has molar activity during sleep; the leg movement myoelectric patch monitors leg movement and is used for determining whether a user has leg movement behavior during sleeping; the eye movement myoelectric patch monitors eye movement for determining whether a user has dreams during sleep.
In a further embodiment, the snore detector comprises a sound wave detector fixed near the trachea, and whether snore and snore conditions exist is judged according to detected sound wave data.
In a further embodiment, the pulse oximetry saturation detector, including a pressure sensitive sensor, detects pulse and oximetry saturation by being clipped to a fingertip.
In a further embodiment, the polysomnography outputs an alarm signal when the pulse oximetry saturation detector fails to detect a pulse signal.
In a further embodiment, the pressure-sensitive airflow sensor and the heat-sensitive airflow sensor comprise a gas detector, a pressure-sensitive sensor and a heat-sensitive sensor which are fixed at the mouth and nose, and the existence of respiration and the respiration conditions are judged by detecting the magnitude of the respiratory airflow and the temperature of the respiratory airflow.
In a further embodiment, when the pressure-sensitive airflow sensor and the heat-sensitive airflow sensor cannot detect the breathing signal, the polysomnography monitor integrates the detection condition of the abdominal-thoracic breathing sensor to judge whether to send out an alarm signal.
In a further embodiment, the position sensor is fixed on the trunk and detects whether the position of the user changes.
In a further embodiment, the abdominal-thoracic breathing sensor comprises an inductive sensor, is mounted on the elastic belt, is sleeved on the chest and the abdomen of the user, and judges the breathing condition by detecting the movement of the chest and the abdomen of the user.
In a further embodiment, when the abdominal-chest respiration sensor cannot detect a respiration signal, the polysomnography monitor integrates the detection conditions of the pressure-sensitive airflow sensor and the heat-sensitive airflow sensor to judge whether to send out an alarm signal.
In a further embodiment, the device further comprises an SD card memory for storing the monitoring data, and when the network connection is not available, the SD card is taken out and read out on the special machine.
As shown in fig. 2, a sleep monitoring method specifically includes the steps of:
step 1, fixing an electrocardio patch, an electroencephalogram patch, a mandible myoelectricity patch, a leg movement myoelectricity patch, an eye movement myoelectricity patch, a snore detector, a pulse blood oxygen saturation degree detector, a pressure-sensitive airflow sensor, a heat-sensitive airflow sensor, a body position sensor and an abdominal and thoracic breathing sensor of a sensing unit at corresponding positions respectively, and collecting various data of a user during sleeping;
step 2, the host computer analyzes and processes various data collected by the sensing unit;
step 3, displaying a processing result by a display, wherein the processing result comprises an electroencephalogram, an electrocardiogram, an electromyogram, snore, pulse, blood oxygen saturation and various sleep breathing parameters;
step 4, the SD card memory stores various recording data;
and 5, the wireless communication unit synchronously sends the data to the cloud for analysis and recording.
In a further embodiment, when the monitored data is abnormal, an alarm is given, the monitored data is synchronously uploaded to the cloud, and when the data threatening the health of a user appears, remote help seeking is carried out.
In summary, the present invention has the following advantages: the signal input ends of 35 channels are adopted to obtain sleep data, the variety of the monitored data exceeds the standard PSG, the basic requirement of primary monitoring is actually met, the sleep data monitoring system can be used as other types of monitors, the application is wide, the host computer analyzes and identifies, and the image reading workload is greatly reduced.
It should be noted that the various features described in the above embodiments may be combined in any suitable manner without departing from the scope of the invention. The invention is not described in detail in order to avoid unnecessary repetition.

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1. A multi-guide sleep monitor comprises a sensing unit, a host, a display and a wireless communication unit;
the sensing unit comprises an electrocardio patch, an electroencephalogram patch, a mandible myoelectric patch, a leg-movement myoelectric patch, an eye-movement myoelectric patch, a snore detector, a pulse blood oxygen saturation degree detector, a pressure-sensitive airflow sensor, a heat-sensitive airflow sensor, a body position sensor and an abdominal and thoracic respiration sensor and is used for acquiring sleep data;
the host is used for carrying out pattern recognition on the monitoring data and analyzing to give an auxiliary diagnosis result;
the display is used for displaying the measured value, the information of the retroactive historical measurement, the occurrence time and the notification object;
and the wireless communication unit is used for synchronously sending the monitoring data to the cloud.
2. The polysomnography instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein the ecg patch is fixed directly under the clavicles on the left and right sides and between the 4 and 5 ribs on the left side to monitor the heartbeat; the electroencephalogram patch is fixed at the top of the head and used for monitoring electroencephalogram; the mandibular myoelectricity patch is fixed at the mandibular position and used for monitoring the mandibular movement; the leg movement myoelectric patch is fixed at the ankle position and used for monitoring leg movement; the eye movement myoelectric patch is fixed at the position of 1cm above and 1cm below the outer canthus of the eye to monitor the eye movement.
3. The monitor of claim 3, wherein the snore detector comprises a sound wave detector fixed near the trachea, and the snore and snore conditions are determined by the detected sound wave data.
4. The polysomnography instrument of claim 3, wherein the pulse oximetry saturation detector comprises a pressure sensitive sensor that detects pulse and oximetry saturation by being clipped to a fingertip.
5. The polysomnography instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pressure-sensitive flow sensor and the thermal flow sensor comprise gas detectors, pressure-sensitive sensors and thermal sensors, which are fixed to the nose and mouth and determine the presence or absence of respiration and the respiration status by detecting the magnitude of the respiratory flow and the temperature of the respiratory flow.
6. The polysomnography instrument of claim 1, wherein the position sensor is fixed to the trunk and detects changes in the position of the user.
7. The polysomnography instrument as claimed in claim 1, wherein the abdominal-thoracic breathing sensor comprises an inductive sensor mounted on a flexible strap and fitted over the chest and abdomen of the user to determine the breathing by detecting the movement of the chest and abdomen of the user.
8. The polysomnography instrument of claim 1, further comprising an SD card memory for storing the monitored data, wherein the SD card is removed from the dedicated machine to read the monitored data when no network connection is present.
9. A sleep monitoring method specifically comprises the following steps:
step 1, fixing an electrocardio patch, an electroencephalogram patch, a mandible myoelectricity patch, a leg movement myoelectricity patch, an eye movement myoelectricity patch, a snore detector, a pulse blood oxygen saturation degree detector, a pressure-sensitive airflow sensor, a heat-sensitive airflow sensor, a body position sensor and an abdominal and thoracic breathing sensor of a sensing unit at corresponding positions respectively, and collecting various data of a user during sleeping;
step 2, the host computer analyzes and processes various data collected by the sensing unit;
step 3, displaying a processing result by a display, wherein the processing result comprises an electroencephalogram, an electrocardiogram, an electromyogram, snore, pulse, blood oxygen saturation and various sleep breathing parameters;
step 4, the SD card memory stores various recording data;
and 5, the wireless communication unit synchronously sends the data to the cloud for analysis and recording.
10. The sleep monitoring method as claimed in claim 9, wherein when the monitored data is abnormal, an alarm is given and is synchronously uploaded to the cloud, and when the data threatening the health of the user appears, a remote help is asked.
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