Help with settings for PR 960 bipap asv

[Nooblakahn]

Hey,

Recently purchased the machine in the subject line for a backup. Should receive today. From what I understand the pressures will be the same as my resmed s9 or s10 ASV machines. Only thing that I guess it's different is this one uses breaths per minute. I've no idea what to set that too. It's there any reports from my s9 and s10 that I can share for someone to look at to clue me in to what to use?

And if I understand correctly... The resmed algorithm just kinda senses when it needs to do breaths, but the resperonics needs to be told when to switch between inhale and exhale breaths?

Thanks all

[Pugsy]

Breaths per minute setting is an automatic setting determined by an average of breaths over a period of time when a person first starts the machine each night...on the ResMed machine. I forget how long it takes to get that average but it's just a few minutes. Then the algorithm kicks in when you don't breath often enough to meet what it thinks you need to breath to match what you did at the beginning of the night.
This happens every night...once you turn the machine off it totally forgets that average breath per minute it figured up.

If the Respironics machine doesn't have a setting where it can configure a similar automatic setting for breaths per minute I would go with a low normal setting maybe around 8 or 10. If you set it too high the machine will try to force you to breath faster than you might want.

[Nooblakahn]

Perfect. I know you told me that was the only setting that was different... But had no clue how it worked.

Thanks!