HIGH ALTITUDE CPAP

CAN SOME HELP ME BUY A CPAP MACHINE THAT WILL WORK AT HIGH ALTITUDES OF 13000-14000 FT?
WHAT BRAND ETC
THANKS

Cool, where are we going?

Most of the newer reputable name brand machines now will auto adjust up to 7500 or 8500.

I have used my PR S1 Respironics machine at roughly 12,500 I think it was and it worked fine and I didn't do anything to any of the settings.
Slept great and all that. Didn't seem to hurt a thing.

They don't "quit" as in not work at all above 10K. It's just the the machine has to work a bit differently to maintain the set pressure at altitude.

You can research the brands and models but Phillips Respironics and ResMed pretty much have the auto adjust for altitude changes built in and you don't have to do anything. I haven't kept up with the other brands.

I don't of any that will officially go up as high as you are going but again you can check the specs to see what they say.

hobbs wrote:Cool, where are we going?

Or why! Hope it comes with some high alt oil, you CAPs key is sticking. Jim

xxyzx wrote:

hobbs wrote:Cool, where are we going?

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50% chance it colorado

32 CO-Mineral Phoenix Peak 13,895 San Juan Mountains
...

Faulty logic there, pretty sad for an engineer! Since they want a cpap, they're obvious planning to sleep at that altitude, which greatly reduces the odds of peak that is the object of a day climb.

Perhaps they are headed here:
http://www.express.co.uk/travel/article ... et-bedroom

or one of the last three here:
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation ... elevations

Pugsy wrote:Most of the newer reputable name brand machines now will auto adjust up to 7500 or 8500.

I have used my PR S1 Respironics machine at roughly 12,500 I think it was and it worked fine and I didn't do anything to any of the settings.
Slept great and all that. Didn't seem to hurt a thing.

They don't "quit" as in not work at all above 10K. It's just the the machine has to work a bit differently to maintain the set pressure at altitude.

You can research the brands and models but Phillips Respironics and ResMed pretty much have the auto adjust for altitude changes built in and you don't have to do anything. I haven't kept up with the other brands.

I don't of any that will officially go up as high as you are going but again you can check the specs to see what they say.

Lucky for the OP, ---How many sherpas does it take carry an iron lung? --or would that even work?

xxyzx wrote:

CapnLoki wrote: Faulty logic there, pretty sad for an engineer! Since they want a cpap, they're obvious planning to sleep at that altitude, which greatly reduces the odds of peak that is the object of a day climb.

Perhaps they are headed here:
http://www.express.co.uk/travel/article ... et-bedroom

or one of the last three here:
https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation ... elevations

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your illogic is laughable

those are the places that are at altitude 13-14k like he specified

You gave a list of mountain peaks, not places where the poster is likely to sleep. Almost all of them would require hiking in, in which case there are more issues than simply the alitude adjustment.

Nowhere does he say in the US; there are numerous other places around the world. If its not one of the tourist sites, such as the ones I mentioned, it could be a high altitude observatory, which does include a few in Colorado and Hawaii, but also in many other places. A visiting observer to one of these facilities has to acclimate for several days before using the instruments.

Or could just be a Drive-By.

One option is to take a plain old "box" (which doesn't track anything but blower hours), and a manometer, and just manually adjust the pressure to your prescription. You'll need to do this at each stop, if you're going to more than one place. Such a unit simply goes on and of by switch, and does not sense leaks or whether or not you're wearing the mask.

BTW, I did call Respironics about my DreamStation, as I'm planning to go higher than the supported altitude. They said that it could be off slightly, but it will "try" to adjust even above the "supported" altitude.

Also, beware of the AEIO-MEd Everest CPAPs. The heated humidifier appears not to function above 8000 ft (approx 2400 meters).

D.H. wrote:Also, beware of the AEIO-MEd Everest CPAPs. The heated humidifier appears not to function above 8000 ft (approx 2400 meters).

Which is ironic given the name of the thing