Babydino was right....engineers over think everything way too much. :roll: I am done here. You asked for opinions and you got mine. Then you argued with me. Be glad your brain doesn't work like mine. This stuff drives me more nuts then it does you guys trying to understand where I am coming from......

I think you are overthinking just how the ASV actually works. You are doing a pretty good job of making mountains out of molehills yourself. You can't really change minute vent with ASV settings. Now there are some bilevels with backup rates where target volume and ventilation specific settings can...

Remember ASV only kicks in that back up rate big breath if there is a physical need for it (like a no breathing central apnea)....it won't do anything in terms of the back up rate if no centrals happen...it essentially functions like any auto adjusting cpap/bilevel/apap machine depending on the set...

I didn't want to derail Katie's thread with this so figured I would create a new thread. ASV has some very clear advantages even for people that don't suffer from central apneas. The biggest thing that impressed me about ASV was actually how it deals with flow limitations by correcting and offsettin...

Makes sense. When I was using the ASV I always wondered why I got the massively ugly FL graph and saw no FLs to speak of on other ResMed machine reports. FLs don't always have to be killed anyway. To those following Katie's story: We did start Katie out at higher EPAP and IPAP with wide open PS but...

palerider wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 01, 2020 5:30 pm

What I see there is increasing flow limitation (the chair shapes on the inhalations) then an arousal, recovery breaths, possibly some moving around, and more recovery breaths.

palerider wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 01, 2020 7:46 pm

Thank you, captain oblivious.

So I wouldn't tell folks to ignore RERA's, were very real in my case. RERA.png I don't believe Dog Slobber was saying that you should ignore RERA's, just that you should take the Autoset flagged RERA events with a grain of salt and that you need to review your data to see if what is flagged as a RE...

Just where would you want to improve anything? Looks like the current settings are being maxed out consistently right now, specifically PS. Machine wants to run a bit more but letting it do so will likely cause worse aerophagia. Does raising EPAP min, PS min or a combo of the two help reduce flow l...

I have been following a few ASV threads and it is pretty cool what these machines are capable of. I didn’t realize just how fast they react to stabilize breathing, it is pretty impressive. Looks like there is still some room for refinement once aerophagia isn’t an issue but awesome to see how it has...

Find the folder with your OSCAR data, copy it onto a USB key etc then move it over to the new computer. You can probably just paste the files in the new OSCAR folder location or what I have done is open OSCAR and point it towards your copied files folder(you can even create a different profile for t...

Saw another poster that used the O2 ring and it looked decent. I was tempted by it but settled with the CMS50F as well.

The reason many people use the CMS50F is that it is cheaper and the data can be imported into OSCAR (a program for tracking CPAP data).

I just went through this as I wanted one as well. I settled on a Torontek B400 which from what I can tell is a rebranded Contec CMS50F, I did see a forum post stating it does work with OSCAR. You can order them online from best buy or walmart. I wanted the CMS50I but just couldn't find a good source...

Some of the breathes before pause look a little suspect then afterwords they look more sleep like. I am thinking the pause is sleep transition (if over 10 seconds would be called a sleep transition apnea). The arousal either happened before the data you posted or possibly right before the cessation....

At least I know what I'm talking about. They sell bacterial filters for airborne bacteria. If you were actually interested in facts, you'd notice that one of the studies I quoted MANY years newer than the one you dredged up. New science, eh? Did you notice that all of your studies were small and th...

Wow you are dense Palerider... Why do you think they sell bacterial filters for CPAP machines... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556912/ Do yourselves a favour and don’t use potentially contaminated water. If you think it may be contaminated boil it as if you were going to drink it. An...