Aspire Medical Overview

Aspire Medical is a development stage medical device company focused on the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OSA occurs when an individual’s airway collapses during sleep, blocking normal breathing. As a result, the patient experiences constant awakening that results in poor sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness, and impaired physical performance. This impairment can be as severe...More»

Aspire Medical is a development stage medical device company focused on the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). OSA occurs when an individual’s airway collapses during sleep, blocking normal breathing. As a result, the patient experiences constant awakening that results in poor sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness, and impaired physical performance. This impairment can be as severe as that produced by alcohol intoxication, making automobile and truck drivers with OSA at high risk for traffic accidents. Even more importantly, OSA has been implicated as a critical risk factor in many cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension, congestive heart failure (CHF) and atrial fibrillation (AF). OSA and sleep disordered breathing afflict more than 20 million Americans. All these factors combine to make obstructive sleep apnea a major healthcare problem.«Less