Overnight oximetry report

[colomom]

Wondering if anyone can offer an opinion on my dad’s overnight oximetry. This was done while using CPAP at an elevation of about 6500’. Unfortunately he has a really messed up back and shoulders and says he was awake much of the night with pain. Still waiting to hear from his doctor but my guess looking at the report is he’s borderline on qualifying for O2 to be covered but might benefit from an O2 bleed. He has heart problems and has had had substantial increasing shortness of breath, weakness, and dizziness over the last month. His symptoms are exactly the same as they were before he had to have heart surgeries to get a new valve and on another occasion get a leak plugged so i suspect something has worsened or changed in his heart. He has an echo and cardiologist appointment coming up, but sadly i don’t expect that there is much they will be able to do for him.
I’ld love to find something, anything that at least could improve his quality of life.
Which brings me back to my question do you think he needs or would benefit from an O2 bleed?

Also wondering if anyone has experience with O2 with a heated hose on a ResMed Airsense 11. Looking on line I see the heated hoses with O2 ports for nearly every model but the but I haven’t found any specifically for the 11.

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[Pugsy]

Also wondering if anyone has experience with O2 with a heated hose on a ResMed Airsense 11. Looking on line I see the heated hoses with O2 ports for nearly every model but the but I haven’t found any specifically for the 11.

ResMed hasn't put making the Oxygen compatible heated hose at the top of their "to do" list yet.
Yes...they have one for the AirSense/AirCurve 10 models but haven't done it yet for the AirSense/AirCurve 11 models yet.

I don't really have an answer to your main question. That sort of stuff is kinda beyond my comfort level for commenting on unless the report just screams "more O2 needed" and this report doesn't just scream the need and he is at altitude which impacts the results as well.

[vandownbytheriver]

Also wondering if anyone has experience with O2 with a heated hose on a ResMed Airsense 11. Looking on line I see the heated hoses with O2 ports for nearly every model but the but I haven’t found any specifically for the 11.

This is the ticket should you go for O2 enrichment:

https://www.cpap.com/productpage/oxygen ... nt-adapter

5$! I'd like to have one in my bag just in case.

Unfortunately it shows to be out of stock at our sponsor. Amazon has several alternatives.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=o2+enrichmen ... nb_sb_noss

[colomom]

ResMed hasn't put making the Oxygen compatible heated hose at the top of their "to do" list yet.
Yes...they have one for the AirSense/AirCurve 10 models but haven't done it yet for the AirSense/AirCurve 11 models yet.

I don't really have an answer to your main question. That sort of stuff is kinda beyond my comfort level for commenting on unless the report just screams "more O2 needed" and this report doesn't just scream the need and he is at altitude which impacts the results as well.

Thanks as always for the great advice! What a bummer that ResMed doesn’t have a heated hose with an O2 port for the 11. Both my son and mom use supplemental O2 hooked to their ResMed Airsense 10 heated hoses. If the doctor recommends O2 do you know a way to hook it into the 11’s heated hose?

I appreciate and understand your hesitation to give specific advice on the O2 report. I plan to wait on the doctor’s advice, just wanting to get my ducks in a row before we see the doc. My dad is 83, in a ton of pain, and has had his fill of doctors and testing. It takes a good deal of convincing to get him to do anything, so I like to walk into the docs office with good questions and some background knowledge. If the doctor does recommend supplemental O2 I can give him a concentrator, so the question for the doc isn’t would insurance pay, but rather would he benefit.
Both my son and mom’s pulmonologists on separate occasions years ago stated that nearly everyone living at altitude could benefit from some extra O2 at night. Probably grasping at straws, but hoping if the doc recommends O2 that it could improve my dad’s quality of life at least a bit.

[colomom]

This is the ticket should you go for O2 enrichment:

https://www.cpap.com/productpage/oxygen ... nt-adapter

5$! I'd like to have one in my bag just in case.

Unfortunately it shows to be out of stock at our sponsor. Amazon has several alternatives.

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=o2+enrichmen ... nb_sb_noss

Great suggestion!
Can you hook that onto a heated hose?

[Pugsy]

If the doctor recommends O2 do you know a way to hook it into the 11’s heated hose?

Not that adds the O2 at the same area of the heated hose that fits the AirSense 10 models.....at the machine end of the hose.

The little adapter that vandownbytheriver shared will work but if you put it at the machine end of the heated hose then you lose the heating/power to the heated hose so if you still want the heat function you have to add that little adapter at the mask end of the heated hose which means you have to snake the O2 tubing up along the heated hose until you get to the little adapter. Not the end of the world but I would suppose one would want to secure that O2 tubing along side the hose so it isn't falling around all over the place. So a little more "work" to get it to work but it is doable for sure.

Now if someone doesn't need or want the heated hose to work as a heated hose or maybe just wants a non heated hose then there are all sorts of adapters out there that would get the job done. Like what we did back in the dark ages before the advent of the integrated heated hoses.

Someone just sent me a box of donation stuff and if I remember correctly there was a baggy just full of various O2 adapters.

[bwexler]

I have used that O2 adapter in the past.
it would go on the mask end of the heated hose, not near the machine.
I also use a SleepWeaver Feather Weight Tube. I would place the O2 adapter between the heated hose and the SleepWeaver Feather Weight Tube then the mask on the end of the SleepWeaver Feather Weight Tube. It works but now you also have the O2 tubing to get tangled in. I would use Velcro to secure the 2 hoses together to minimize getting tangled in the hoses.

[Janknitz]

Some masks have ports for oxygen nasal cannulas. The Mirage Quattro is one--it's a FF mask.