On the registration website there is a section for professionals such as doctors and sleep study clinics. It has different info than what is available to us deplorables in flyover country.Pugsy wrote: ↑Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:08 pmI am sorry but you are asking me a question that I simply can't answer because there is so much I don't know about all this. What I know is actually very little.
I don't know if whatever particles that might be making it to the water chamber and on are even of a size that can be seen.
I don't know how much of an issue simple off gassing might be.
Just because particulates can't be seen doesn't mean they aren't present. That sort of thing.
I also know that there is a risk associated with not using cpap as well....so each person has to decide for themselves which risk scares them the worse.
I can't make that decision for someone nor will I.
I can tell a person what I would do if the only machine I had was an affected machine....and I did that a couple of times already in this thread. I might add an inline bacterial filter though. While I know it won't necessarily help much with gaseous exchange...it will catch the larger particulates. In fact Phillips recommends that patients who are on life saving ventilators that are affected to do just that.
Whatever, if ever, any protection that filter might offer....is better than no protection.
I would still proceed with obtaining a non affected machine at my earliest opportunity.
Stopping cpap for me would mean my O2 levels tanking to around 70%....that's a known risk and a pretty bad risk at that.
It scares me worse than the maybe risk of the foam maybe breaking down.
Phillips tells them that even though particles don't show up in your hose or mask that does not mean there is not degradation of the foam. It can still release the dangerous chemicals Like "Toluene Diamine", Toluene diisocyanate etc. etc. The professionals discussed this on a YouTube video and are talking like this could take a year to sort out. I'm inclined to believe it is every man or women for themselves, and to do what is best for yourself.
This is the name of the video "Impact of the Philips PAP Recall on Patient Care and Sleep Center Operations" and the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H80vyhFb5vc
I also have O2 levels in the low 70's, plus I stop breathing at times. I also have COPD and can't even think about other crap going into my lungs. I am ordering a new Air Sense 10 and will sort this Dreamstation fiasco out while I'm still alive.