SleepyHead

If you use a CPAP machine or review sleep therapy data as a doctor or healthcare professional, you might find it frustrating that most machines show only a few summary numbers on their own display. For this reason, SleepyHead was built to show the full picture. This free, open source program has a straightforward working principle that allows you to view statistics and analyze detailed data recorded by CPAP or similar machines.

The best thing about SleepyHead is its broad support of respiratory devices such as Philips Respironics System One machines, ResMed S9 and AirSense 10 CPAP machines, Fisher & Paykel ICON machines, DeVilbiss IntelliPAP devices or Contec CMS50 oximeters. By reading data from these machines, you can track sleep patterns and see how well the treatment of breathing issues like sleep apnea works.

SleepyHead lets CPAP users and doctors see detailed therapy data from many CPAP machines and oximeters, making sleep apnea treatment easier to evaluate.

Features:

• A free program used by CPAP users and healthcare professionals to import and visualize data from different CPAP machines.
• Oximetry data from Contec CMS50 oximeters can be reviewed on its own or synchronized with the CPAP data of the same night.
• When analyzing a night of sleep, the daily view shows detailed graphs of flow rate, pressure and leaks, together with the total hours of use and other information.
• From the main user interface, you can gain access to an overview with charts for longer periods and to a statistical summary of the recorded data.
• It lists and flags respiratory events such as obstructive and central apneas and hypopneas, so you can see when and how often they occur.
• It helps users and their doctors interpret therapy results, making it easier to discuss pressure settings and mask problems.

To use SleepyHead, you have to first transfer data from a CPAP machine via a storage device. In most cases you simply insert the SD card of the machine into a card reader connected to your laptop or computer. Once done, the files will be imported into the program.

This program works in a simple way and does not demand complex system requirements. SleepyHead was written by the Australian developer Mark Watkins, who stopped working on it in 2018. Its open source code lives on in the OSCAR (Open Source CPAP Analysis Reporter) project, which continues development.