improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message the topic of this article may not meet wikipedia s notability guidelines for companies and organizations . please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention . if notability can not be established the article is likely to be merged redirected or deleted . find sources resmed news newspapers books scholar jstor free images june 2015 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message resmed type public traded as nyse rmd asx rmd industry medical founded 1989 founder peter c. farrell founder and chairman headquarters san diego california key people michael mick farrell ceo robert douglas president and coo products medical equipment for sleep disordered breathing and other respiratory disorders website www.resmed.com resmed is a global manufacturer of cpap masks machines and other products that diagnose treat or help manage sleep disordered breathing particularly sleep apnea chronic obstructive pulmonary disease copd or other respiratory conditions . for the general public the company offers a non contact sleep monitor the s by resmed currently available in the us . resmed employs about 5 000 employees worldwide operates in 100 countries and has manufacturing facilities in australia france singapore and the us . it achieved revenues of 1.7 billion usd in fiscal year 2014 15 . 1 as part of its mission resmed seeks to spread awareness of the prevalence of sleep disordered breathing sdb and its major manifestation obstructive sleep apnea osa since more than 80 % of cases are believed to be undiagnosed . 2 more than 70 % of people with obesity 3 heart failure 4 type 2 diabetes 5 and drug resistant hypertension 6 have some form of sleep disordered breathing . history edit in 1980 professor colin sullivan invented the first continuous positive airway pressure cpap machine regarded today as the gold standard in sleep apnea treatment . resmed launched in 1989 when founder peter farrell sought to expand the general public s access to cpap treatment . the company was founded in australia in 1989 but relocated to san diego in 1990 . 7 in addition to cpap machines and masks the company has since grown to produce cpap humidifiers heated tubes and other accessories as well as diagnostic tools hospital cpap machines and life support ventilators . it has also expanded into healthcare informatics with software solutions that enable patients and medical professionals to wirelessly monitor sleep data . see also edit sleep related breathing disorders references edit corporate factsheet pdf young t et al. estimation of the clinically diagnosed proportion of sleep apnea syndrome in middle aged men and women . sleep 1997 ; 20 9 705 6 . o keeffe t and patterson ej . evidence supporting routine polysomnography before bariatric surgery . obes surg 2004 ; 14 1 23 6 . oldenburg o et al. sleep disordered breathing in patients with symptomatic heart failure a contemporary study of prevalence in and characteristics of 700 patients . eur j heart fail 2007 ; 9 3 251 7 . einhorn d et al. prevalence of sleep apnea in a population of adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus . endocr pract 2007 ; 13 4 355 62 . logan ag et al. high prevalence of unrecognized sleep apnoea in drug resistant hypertension . j hypertens 2001 ; 19 12 2271 7 . founder of resmed to step down as ceo ; mick farrell to take top post san diego business journal 20 feb 2013 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title resmed & oldid 743675171 categories companies based in san diegocompanies established in 1989companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies listed on the australian securities exchangepublicly traded companies of the united stateshidden categories articles needing additional references from june 2015all articles needing additional referencesarticles with topics of unclear notability from june 2015all articles with topics of unclear notability navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages bahasa indonesia edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 17 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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