Ok so Dad's Aircurve 11 ASV machine is set to Ramp off Mode ASVAuto Epap 5-7 Pressure Support 3-9 Full face mask We are still seeing huge amounts of leakage because every time he moves or starts to mess with it, it will start leaking. To refresh, He has lewy body dementia (Parkinsons and dementia di...

Ah so. I think it's time for an update. He still uses the machine. He is still having nights where he wakes up thinking he is suffocating. I really need some sort of way to monitor his pulse ox along with the ASV data. Or at least have a Pulse ox that can alert me remotely that he is having a proble...

I apologize for misleading you, but I don't use an ASV and I thought that it would have the same kind of fine tuning clinical controls that the AirCurve 10 VAuto does. I know it's frustrating, but you and your father might need to mention the fact that the machine seems to be out of sync with his b...

Well dang, the videos I have found all seem to be for the bi level version and Dad has the ASV version and I'm having trouble figuring out how to change the trigger, cycle or Ti settings because the menu doesn't seem to be the same as the videos I have found. All I seem to have access to is epap min...

It's important to try to tease out exactly what your father means when he says he's working too much to just breathe. Yea that is the challenge sometimes. When we first got this machine he was complaining that it was exhausting him making him keep inhaling way longer than he wanted to. Thanks for t...

Ok here is a sleep HQ share link. https://sleephq.com/public/teams/share_links/653542ef-b6a2-4156-b069-52a60719e136 He did really well with it when I had first changed the settings to be epap 4. Pressure support 0-7 Then I kept trying to up the pressure support and things kept getting worse. When I ...

So I think the goal should be (at least for this weekend) get a very gentle setting so that he can actually wear it and sleep and we can collect some breathing data. The way it is set right now, we are lucky to keep it on him for 3 hours and I don't think he is actually sleeping much at all with it ...

Not sure If I should start a new thread now or not. We did finally get in for a sleep study (they finally relented and went ahead and ordered the study before getting the cardio echo done.) Unfortunately, at the sleep study he really didn't sleep. He kept waking up. Probably a combination of weather...

So today I'm trying to set up dad's old laptop computer with oscar and everything to monitor and check stuff so we can take it with us if we decide we need to go to the DME office since I want to show them what looks like the machine may be malfunctioning. I don't actually want to have them replace ...

Anyone Got any ASV Advise for us? Dad really needs a machine that can actively monitor his breathing and deliver a real breath when he has centrals. Also he seems to have cheyne stokes respiration several nights out of the week and there are even huge stretches that look like it to me but the machin...

ChicagoGranny, thanks, I’ll try this. What would you suggest for a min pressure on APAP mode? 11? Or instead 9 which was my old 95% pressure when using APAP 6-20? Test it out on the different pressures and see how you do I guess since I haven't seen anyone with experience with them giving you any e...

I agree that he still has nights where the leaking gets out of control (I mean when you start pulling at the mask and struggling to take it off, it leaks,) However, he is also having nights like this. Though I realize that the minimal leak is because there is almost no pressure at this point. https:...

BTW, just for info, you can always tack on new thoughts/notes to older ones just above them rather than always starting new ones... can make it easier for us to follow (and realize there's been more), by editing the earlier notes rather than starting new. I'm not sure I completely follow? I actuall...

He is totally a complex case. The DME office is like 2 hours each way so I'm kinda limited for a time when I can leave here and take him there. I would be more likely to do that if I actually thought the cpap therapy was working. I actually think positional therapy does more for him that the CPAP si...