Comfort Curve and 420E

Since the Comfort Curve comes with its own 6 foot hose, how can I adapt it or the 6 foot hose with my 420E and it's pressure sensor line to use the Comfort Curve? I really don't want 12 feet of hose to deal and travel with. And it seems that if I plug off the sensor line it would screw up the machines readings and effectiveness. I'm not sure I want to try inserting another sensor line through the cuff of the Comfort Curve hose either. Surely there is some kind of connector that could be used.

Or better yet, why doesn't Respironics come out with a sensor line model of the Comfort Curve for those of us on machines with sensor lines? It would be a very simple modification for them to make at the factory, seems to me,.

If you are handy, drill a hole in the rubber end of the Comfortcurve hose, Thread a sensor line thru the newly drilled hole and drop in down the hose. This works perfectly.. Triming the hole with an exacto knife is helpful as the hole you make needs to seal around the sensor tube but not smash the sensor tube and the rubber tends to flow into the hole.

I would be surprised if Respironics made a hose for Puritan Bennett. Perhaps someone like cpap.com could have them made.

Janelle,

I wouldn't hesitate to do it. The first hose I got with my 420E was defective because the pressure hose was pinched where it exited the large hose. I pulled the hose out and reinstalled it through a new hole that was located so that it did not pinch.

If you do not want to risk permanent damage to your CC, you might pick-up one of these:

https://www.cpap.com/productpage/417

You could install it between the CC and the machine and run the pressure hose through it.

Yes, Wading. Your idea of drilling through a inexpensive plastic part is better than my solution of drilling through the rubber cuff. Much easier.