Oximeter results worse with xPAP then without

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Sammy_J
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Post by Sammy_J » Tue Sep 18, 2007 9:06 pm

Goofproof wrote:Maybe is as simple as you need to address mouthbreathing, the number one cause of treatment failure in patients that use nasal interfaces. Jim
I will ask the sleep doc but nobody believes that I am a mouth breather while sleeping. I just looked at my data and VSnore index on that night was 11.9 and mask leak was 29.45. The AHI that night was better than usual at 6.4.