Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Morbius » Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:13 pm

Darth Lady wrote:Question: With a full polysomnograph, is there going to be any way to tell what the root cause of this is (obstructive, central, something else)?
What you might want to look for is if the events get worse in REM (obstructive origin) or disappear entirely (central origin).

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Morbius » Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:25 pm

Or if the real problem is...
Darth Lady wrote:Hopefully I will actually be able to sleep this time, unlike the titration study, where I got beyond Stage 2 for all of 4 minutes all night
...bad sleep.

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by robysue » Mon Apr 13, 2015 7:56 pm

Morbius wrote:EPAP trolling:
Meaning??

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Darth Lady » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:41 pm

Morbius wrote:
Darth Lady wrote:Somebody please help here, because I'm not sure how to export SleepyHead files.
It's in

c:/Documents and Settings/YourName/MyDocuments/SleepyHeadData/Profiles/YourName
It's in there; now I just need the info to share it with you.

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Darth Lady » Mon Apr 13, 2015 8:45 pm

Morbius wrote:Or if the real problem is...
Darth Lady wrote:Hopefully I will actually be able to sleep this time, unlike the titration study, where I got beyond Stage 2 for all of 4 minutes all night
...bad sleep.
Yeah, I definitely have bad sleep. But nobody knows *why* I have bad sleep. Right now it's spin the wheel and take a guess. Hopefully I'll know more after Sunday, or at least after the follow-up appointment from Sunday... or maybe after Morbius goes through my data....

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Morbius » Tue Apr 14, 2015 3:59 am

robysue wrote:
Morbius wrote:EPAP trolling:
Meaning??
Auto DWing:

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AKA Popt search.

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Morbius » Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:01 am

Darth Lady wrote:
Morbius wrote:
Darth Lady wrote:Somebody please help here, because I'm not sure how to export SleepyHead files.
It's in

c:/Documents and Settings/YourName/MyDocuments/SleepyHeadData/Profiles/YourName
It's in there; now I just need the info to share it with you.
Zip, upload to Dropbox and post the link.

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Morbius » Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:02 am

Darth Lady wrote:Yeah, I definitely have bad sleep.
Oh darn!

I read something about that once!

Now what the heck was it...

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Jay Aitchsee » Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:36 am

Morbius wrote:Now what the heck was it...
"I know, I know", Jay says raising hand and blurting out the answer.

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Morbius » Tue Apr 14, 2015 5:20 am

And not for nothing, but with the leg and neurontin thing, the periodicity, and the high Watch-PAT AHI, I don't think PLMs can be taken off the table, especially since you can trick a WP into thinking PLMs are respiratory events:

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Darth Lady » Tue Apr 14, 2015 6:48 am

I'm not sure this will work, but:
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Anne

It's the first time I've used Dropbox, and I really don't know much about how it works.

As to PLMs, it's definitely on my doc's list, as apparently I had quite a lot of them at the last titration study, but then I tossed and turned all night at that study because I cannot sleep flat (this time I told them I'm bringing my wedge pillow). And if WatchPAT can be fooled into thinking PLMs are events, can it then generate false desats from those false events?

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by robysue » Tue Apr 14, 2015 10:45 am

Morbius wrote:
robysue wrote:
Morbius wrote:EPAP trolling:
Meaning??
Auto DWing:

...

AKA Popt search.
Ah yes. Now I know exactly what you mean: That PR Hunt-and-Peck algorithm in action. It can be annoying.

Off topic, but semi-related. Why is the Popt search algorithm applied to IPAP on my PR BiPAP Auto? And why is it applied to the EPAP on DarthLady's PR System One REMStar 60 Series BiPAP autoSV Advanced? In other words, what's PR's rationale for implementing the algorithm differently on the two (very) different machines?

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by archangle » Tue Apr 14, 2015 12:12 pm

Darth Lady wrote:I'm not sure this will work, but:
https://www.dropbox.com/home/Anne
That's the link for where YOU log in.

Log into dropbox and go to files. FInd the file in question and click on "share."

It should give you a "share link to file" box with something like

https://www.dropbox.com/s/saabcdef132/m ... a.zip?dl=0

Cut and paste that url to whoever you want to share it with.

If you post it here, everyone who can see see the link will be able to get your file. If you want more privacy, PM the link to whoever you want to see it.

Note that since you copied your SleepyHead profile data, it will have your name, address, e-mail, phone, and anything else you entered into SleepyHead. Open up SleepyHead and "edit profile" to see the information you're sharing.

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by Darth Lady » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:03 pm

Thanks Archangle. Will password protecting the profile information be enough, or am I better off just deleting most of it?

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Re: Can Itamar WatchPAT distinguish types of events?

Post by palerider » Tue Apr 14, 2015 1:54 pm

robysue wrote:
Morbius wrote:
robysue wrote:
Morbius wrote:EPAP trolling:
Meaning??
Auto DWing:
AKA Popt search.
Ah yes. Now I know exactly what you mean: That PR Hunt-and-Peck algorithm in action. It can be annoying.
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