* Ontario - The Toronto Rehabilitation Institute will be conducting a study to analyze the sleep apnea in the Canadian trucking industry
-- The institute’s partner, a company called BresoTec, is providing the home sleep-testing equipment for the estimated 1,000 participants they hope to attract for the study... A glance into BresoTec’s role in the study, and the products it manufactures and markets, reveals more about an entire sleep-testing and treatment industry that is standing by to gain from any possible government requirement... BresoTec is supplying a product called BresoDx for the study participants. The company describes it as a proprietary sleep-testing device that helps determine the prevalence and severity of apnea. The company claims its device is an alternative to expensive and time-consuming sleep testing in a laboratory... Interestingly, the company’s website address, bresotec.com, automatically redirects to another home-diagnostic product called the ApneaDx, manufactured by a company called iDapt Somno... Perhaps even more interesting, however, is that the iDapt Somno was developed by a team of scientists and engineers that include Dr. Geoff Fernie, a biomedical and mechanical engineer who also happens to be institute director at the Toronto Rehabilitation Institute...
(Photo: This motion simulator platform is one of many technological advancements to be seen in the Toronto Rehab Institute's Challenging Environment Assessment Lab) -- Toronto, ONT, CAN - Land Line, by David Tanner - 3 June 2015Labels: truckers' apnea, truckers' safety
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