A new ingestible capsule can monitor vital signs from within the patient’s GI tract. The sensor could be used for less intrusive monitoring of sleep disorders such as sleep apnea, or for detecting opioid overdoses.
  • clump_of_atomsBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This article is very inaccurate.

    1. Nowadays you can do a sleep study at home with a minimally intrusive wrist band type device. You don’t need to be in a sleep lab.
    2. The “pill” doesn’t measure oxygen sats/desats, and I doubt it ever will. This make it useless for diagnosing sleep apnea.
    3. Swallowing a pill seems more invasive to me than wearing a watch-like device, which is almost what’s currently used today.