S9 EPR Settings

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S9 EPR Settings

Post by jlhog » Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:18 pm

Can someone tell me the difference in these settings. Im guessing when EPR is off you get full pressure all the time, but what does 1/2/3 represent?
Off/1/2/3

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Re: S9 EPR Settings

Post by HoseCrusher » Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:31 pm

When you breath out the EPR setting drops the pressure by 1, 2, or 3 cm H2O.

For example if you have a setting of 12 and an EPR of 2, when you breath out you are only pushing against a pressure of 10.

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Re: S9 EPR Settings

Post by jlhog » Sat Feb 11, 2012 1:38 pm

Perfect, Thank you

But I missed one, the patient setting?

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Re: S9 EPR Settings

Post by robysue » Sat Feb 11, 2012 2:03 pm

jlhog wrote:Perfect, Thank you

But I missed one, the patient setting?
When EPR = Patient in the clinical menu, that allows the patient to choose (and change) the EPR setting from the patient set up menu.

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