Reducing Heart Failure Re-admissions by Enhancing Sleep Apnea Treatment Adherence

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sleep Apnea Syndromes; Congestive Heart Failure

Treatments: Behavioral: AirCare App

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02312765

820241

Details and patient eligibility

About

Sleep apnea, characterized by abnormal breathing at night, is often untreated in patients with heart failure. Helping patients to effectively use the most common form of treatment for sleep apnea, positive airway pressure therapy, can improve their heart function. This can reduce the likelihood that the patient will be re-admitted to the hospital. AirCareLabs has developed an innovative solution that allows patients to communicate with health care providers 24 hours a day, thus allowing them to get the help they need to effectively use positive airway pressure and thereby reduce the risk of being re-admitted to the hospital.

Enrollment: 146 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Congestive heart failure and sleep apnea

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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146 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Study participants will receive a tablet computer with the AirCare system.

Treatment:

Behavioral: AirCare App

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care