Community PAP Therapy: Engineering Better Sleep Apnea Care

About this episode

This episode discusses how patient-facing open-source PAP platforms empower users to optimize their sleep apnea treatment through detailed data analysis.

In this episode of Talking Sleep, host Dr. Seema Khosla welcomes David Messerschmitt, a retired computer and signal processing engineer, and Stuart Crisp, a retired process control engineer and educator, to discuss patient-facing open-source PAP platforms and how informed users leverage detailed data to optimize their sleep apnea treatment. This episode represents a departure from the typical clinical expert format. After eight seasons focusing on sleep medicine professionals, these engineer-patients reached out to share how platforms like Sleep HQ and OSCAR have transformed their understanding and management of sleep-disordered breathing. Both are power users who have helped thousands of fellow patients navigate complex PAP data, representing a patient empowerment movement that many clinicians may not fully appreciate. David and Stuart explain what Sleep HQ and OSCAR are, how these platforms differ from standard clinical downloads, and what data visualization capabilities they offer. The platforms integrate multiple data streams—high-resolution flow rate data from PAP device SD cards, pulse oximetry from wearable rings, and sleep architecture from devices like Apple…

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Seema Khosla

Guests: David Messerschmitt, Stuart Crisp

Topics covered

• PAP therapy
• sleep apnea
• patient empowerment
• data visualization
• sleep-disordered breathing

Keywords

• PAP platforms
• sleep apnea treatment
• data analysis
• patient empowerment
• sleep-disordered breathing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sleep HQ, OSCAR, Apple Watch

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