Physician wrote:Can one draw any conclusion from this data ?
CPAP set 9-15, EPR = 3
Leak = 12-14
Pressure: Median 7.8, 95th%ile 10.4
Apnea index = 3.4, obstructive = 0.7, central = 2.6
7 hours sleep
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He might have a Sleep Clinic visit in the next two weeks.
There's a reason you need to go to an expert to diagnose and treat apnea. Someone who knows what their doing could tell more by looking at the data on the SD card with the free SleepyHead program. They could also make some adjustments and tell quite a bit more without an actual in-lab sleep test. However, the medical mafia likes $leep te$t$, and a sleep test is a good thing.
However, the machine seems to think he needs CPAP.
Re: Obamacare
One of the evil things in Obamacare is that you can get the Obamacare subsidized rates if you are above the poverty line level of income, but if you make less that, you pay the full rate. i.e. if you earn $14,000 per year, you might pay $150 per month, but if you make $10,000, you pay $600. (Rates vary with age, location, etc.)
Obama wanted everyone below the poverty line to go into medicaid, but many states decided not to expand medicaid coverage, and you can't get medicaid unless your income is much lower, so there's a big gap for the unemployed, early retired, or simply low income people. Also, there are a lot of problems with the medicaid program vs. insurance.
