Bachelor Assignment

This project focuses on the diagnostic process for patients who may have sleep apnoea-a sleep disorder characterised by repeated breathing cessations. This prevents patients from reaching deep sleep. Generally, primary care refers patients to the hospital where polysomnography is conducted, an extensive sleep study. Sleep apnoea has an overall prevalence of 20% but remains undiagnosed 90%. This issue cannot be resolved merely by increasing referrals, as doing so would overload hospitals. Instead, the solution lies in optimising the screening process earlier on within primary care. This can be done by basing sleep studies oximetry, conducting sleep studies at-home rather than polysomnography conducted in the hospital. Therefore, this thesis aimed to design a user-friendly Class 3 sleep study device for diagnosing sleep apnoea, suitable for primary care and patient use, and to enable batch production through appropriate material choices and form-giving.