Other than maximizing mask comfort, there are 2 main tasks of a CPAP machine. Provide modulated fresh air (air/ 02 supply) to keep you from holding your breath during the night, and remove the majority of the CO2 from the mask that You are exhaling with every out breath so you are not re-breathing i...

What is happening to you with your Resmed F20 full face?

DB

If anyone is using an Resmed Airfit F20 or AirTouch F20 mask and can document that the siphon vent flaps are cycling open and closed while in use, could you report that here to this conversation along with the pressure setting your CPAP is operating at?

Thnx

DB

The pressure setting averages seven. All I know is on the Quattro air and the F 10 design the flaps regularly open and close With each breath and regularly vent air while i sleep. The circular vents just mentioned don’t exist on the Quattro AIR, the F 10 or the F 20 masks. You are thinking of some o...

I have UARS and I’ve been using a BiPAP Resmed air sense 10 with automatic setting tween 4 and 20 for about six years. It’s made all the difference in the world and provides me relaxed, comforting, even sleep that eluded me before Originally, my sense was my doctors discounted UARS versus obstructiv...

I have been using a Resmed AirSense 10 with a Resmed Quattro Air Mask (the one with the forehead bridge) for 5 years very successfully. Recently I changed to to new insurance co and they prescribed me a new AirSense 10 (identical machine and settings) and a new Resmed Airfit 20 mask. First night I w...

Normally that is true except when the water is contaminated which can happen in swampy regions of US etc and 3rd world.
Then it can make u sick. I do travel to 3rd world.

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db

I know I have UARS instead of OSA / obstructive sleep apnea and that the prescription is for an APAP machine but I'm not sure what the prescribed settings are. I'm checking with my doctor. I don't want to carry my regular machine as I have been doing because I travel frequently and it constantly cre...

I have a Resmed Airsense 10 with heated tube for use at home. I've been using it for about a year and now realize I probably need to get a portable unit but I have no idea what I should should get or look for in a portable unit. ( mostly for use when traveling independently overseas and staying in b...