International Congresses Vienna 2024

The ERS Congress 2024, Vienna

This annual event brings together the world's respiratory experts to showcase all the latest advances in respiratory medicine and science.

Chair(s): Jellien Makonga-Braaksma, Winfried J. Randerath

Session type: Pro-Con debate

Carolina Lombardi

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Con: limited channel sleep studies and new technologies cannot be used

Carolina Lombardi

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To discuss the potential benefits and limitations of new technologies and data analysis methods for automated sleep studies. What are the dangers of Level 3 and especially Level 4 sleep studies in the wrong setting? What benefits can new technologies and especially new analysis algorithms and artificial intelligence in the diagnosis of sleep-related breathing disorders bring if they are used in a targeted manner? What benefits can they bring in the age of individualised therapy concepts and for a possible endotype- and phenotype-based therapeutic strategy, or do they rather limit this approach?