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Dymedix Diagnostics: One-Stop-Shop for Sleep Monitoring Solutions

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Jim Moore, President, Dymedix DiagnosticsJim Moore, President
Researchers suggest that there is an existence of a bi-directional link between sleep disorders and deteriorating mental and physical health in individuals. Failure to identify and diagnose sleep disorders impacts mental aptitude and physical vitality by causing increased blood pressure, heart failure, diabetes, among others. Prolonged undiagnosed sleep disorders can cause individuals to spend years of their lives in a sub-optimal state of psychological and physiological functioning, never maximizing the real potential of their mind or body.

Monitoring sleep-related physiological activity can help determine the actual cause, type, and assist in better diagnosis of several sleep-related conditions.

On this front, Dymedix Diagnostics, a medical device manufacturing company, offers patented respiratory effort, airflow, movement, and snore sensors based on a revolutionary material called polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF). This lightweight, thin, flexible material is sensitive to temperature, pressure, and vibration, making it optimal to use in measuring and detecting patterns during an individual’s sleep such as respiratory effort, oral/nasal airflow, muscle and movement activity, and other parameters.

Dymedix offers advanced PVDF sensors as reusable, semi-disposable, and completely disposable, designed with enhanced sensitivity required for high-quality adult and pediatric sleep monitoring. The company additionally provides surface electrodes to detect EMG activity from the Chin, Leg, and intercostal locations.

Utilizing PVDF material allows us to continually innovate and produce quick response, sensitive and accurate sensors for respiratory airflow and effort detection


Unlike conventional sensors, Dymedix’s technology provides very linear waveforms from both thermal and pressure stimulus. The flexible and disposable nature of polarized PVDF film allows Dymedix to create innovative sensor applications for sleep diagnostic testing with improved safety, accuracy, and reliability. Dymedix sensors are also compliant with the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) Accreditation Standards.

Customers can use Dymedix’s wide range of sensors for accurate detection of apnea, hypopnea, UARS, and snore on patients using either a home study device or a sleep lab system.

An important and unique value of using Dymedix airflow sensors is that physicians can get a more linear airflow pattern and faster response time in comparison to traditional thermocouple or thermistor technologies. The response time of a conventional thermal airflow sensor is generally 2-3 seconds, while the Dymedix airflow sensor has a response time of 5 milliseconds. The quick response time of Dymedix sensors helps in the detection of subtle airflow signals that might be missed by traditional thermistors.

“Utilizing PVDF material allows us to continually innovate and produce quick response, sensitive and accurate sensors for respiratory airflow and effort detection,” explains Jim Moore, President of Dymedix Diagnostics.

Dymedix Diagnostic’s products are FDA approved, CE marked, and compliant with ISO 13485 standards.
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Dymedix Diagnostics

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Dymedix Diagnostics

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Shoreview, MN

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Jim Moore, President

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Dymedix Diagnostic offers an exclusive line of physiological sensors based on a technology called polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) specifically designed for the sleep medicine industry. PVDF is a unique polarized plastic film that delivers very fast and reliable signals when it is excited by movement, pressure, vibration and temperature change. This technology allows for the detection of sleep disorders like apneas, hypopneas, UARS, snoring and respiratory effort, all provided in disposable and reusable sensor options. Dymedix's patented PVDF technology provides accurate, reliable and consistent PSG data with the least amount of testing procedure disruption

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Dymedix Diagnostics Releases the FastTrack Effort Pack as the First Totally Disposable Option for Respiratory Effort Sensing in Sleep Diagnostic Tests

Dymedix Diagnostics announced that it has released a completely disposable option for respiratory effort sensing during sleep diagnostic testing. The FastTrack Effort Pack consists of two cut-to-fit belts with two attached polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) sensors. These AASM compliant respiratory effort belts are used on a single patient study and then disposed of after the test. This option will help sleep testing facilities reduce the time and expense of disinfection procedures while also reducing infection risk to patients.

Historically, sleep testing centers have relied upon reusable sensors to measure the amount of effort in a patient’s respiration, usually from belts around the chest and abdomen. Belts and sensors had to be put through a careful cleaning process to ensure that they would not cause the spread of potential infection from one patient to the next. With the recent emphasis on infection control procedures by the Joint Commission (JCAHO) in accreditation of sleep testing facilities, pressure has increased for better practices and options to avoid this issue.

Semi-disposable options have been available for a number of years, but would still rely upon a reusable sensor that made contact with the patient’s body. Only the belting material was disposable with these systems. These were therefore better options than what came before, but still held a potential for cross contamination. Dymedix Diagnostics has developed the first system to dispose of the entire testing system including both the belts and the sensors.

The FastTrack Effort Pack comes in a pre-packaged bag from the manufacturer to be opened only at the time of testing. The belts can be cut to the specific length required for a given patient and then used with any current sleep diagnostic testing system. Dymedix Diagnostics fully expects robust interest in the FastTrack solution across the entire sleep diagnostic field, and particularly with pediatric and high risk groups.

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Dymedix Diagnostics Hires New Vice President of Sales and Business Development

John brings 25+ years of business and product development experience in a number of industries including rubber/plastic molding, semi-conductor, motion control, medical instrument manufacturing, aviation fuel delivery parts manufacturing, and medical supplies & accessories product development.

Prior to joining Dymedix John worked at Cadwell where he served as Product Manager and rapidly increased sales and revenue of the Supplies and Accessories product line. At Dymedix, John is charged with managing the sales team and growing markets across the United States.

"I am very excited to join this outstanding team at Dymedix Diagnostics and to continue expanding the sales reach of Dymedix’s innovative and unique family of sleep sensor products," said John.

“John joins Dymedix Diagnostics during a time of increasing growth. He will play a vital role in managing this growth and driving national sales expansion” said Jim Moore, CEO of Dymedix Diagnostics. “We are excited to welcome John to the team.”