A lot of sleep docs we hear about on this board have no trouble with their patients being handed autos set wide open, 4-25 cm, and then letting the machine decide moment-to-moment, every night. An occasional central may occur using an auto or raising pressure on a CPAP. But the body adjusts. When a...

Good luck with your study. I hope all goes well. As far as which CPAP to get, you'll get a lot of answers. I have been setting them up for about 8 years now. From my experience with PB, Respironics, ResMed, and F&P - the most reliable ones I have worked with are the ResMed units. Since you fly and s...

. . . increasing the EPAP if you're using EPR?! . . . Would you agree, in principle, that if a patient had permission from the sleep doc to self-titrate, and that patient found that increasing EPR on their ResMed CPAP caused an increase in the AI (consistently over a week or two), that patient migh...

True, WichitaSleepRT, except that with pressure blowing in at you , you do need to make an effort to exhale, even if you're healthy, and that's strange, or weird or disconcerting disconcerting to some, panic inducing to others. I'm not trying to be snide or nasty - but do try a CPAP set at 8 for a ...

This is different from C-Flex, where the exhale relief is "relative" to a person's breathing effort and is not an exact drop in pressure like EPR. With C-Flex, there's a slight drop in pressure at the beginning of the exhale but there's a little "back pressure" there......to help keep the airway pr...

With a pressure of 7 and an EPR setting of 3 (EPR drops the pressure by actual cm of pressure per setting number), you're only getting about 4 cm. of therapy pressure about half the time and 7 cm. the other half.. Den This answer is misleading to the OP. You don't need 7cm of pressure when you firs...

I think you guys have a mis perception about EPR and C-Flex, the decrease in pressure happens at the start of exhalation, and as you are exhaling the pressure is already building back up. So the pressure is supposed to be at the prescribed level at the end of exhaltion and all thorugh inhilation. Th...

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