still comparing bipap with aflex

[rux1960]

I am reading and reading and come up with new questions. is not bipap very similar with the aflex cpap machine? does bipap more than an aflex? I have an aflex but I need another machine and beacuse I choke ocassionaly I was recommended to look at bipap.tks
Rux

[Goofproof]

No! You are trying to compare a Apple against a Orange, They are two different types of XPAPs, for two different purposes. Jim

[ozij]

A bi-level machine can give you high pressure each and every time you inhale, and lower pressure each and every time you exhale, breath by breath by breath, all night long. It handles your inhales separately from your exhales. And it can keep a very big separation between those two pressure - up to 8 cms h20.

An automatic machine will check your breathing pattern over a number of breath cycles, and decide on the necessary pressure - for inhale and exhale - by making calculations from that pattern. No automatic machine can give you as high a separation between inhale and exhale pressures as a bi-level. Different companies handle exhale relief differently, and exhale relief helps some people - but none of the exhale relief technologies can achieve the separation the a bi-lelvel achieves. So for some people, that exhale relief on and auto may just not be enough. AFLEX is Respironics' exhale relief for its newer auto machines. Resmed has ERP and EasyBreathe.

Whoever recommended a bi-level machine thinks that you'll benefit from the larger pressure differential that the bi-level can give you.

O.

[Guest]

... I was recommended to look at bipap.tks
Rux

Likely because of other medical problems? Bipaps do require a separate prescription.

[rux1960]

do the doctor recommends a bipap based on a medical issue like COPD or from the data one gets with a machine? I have a mild emphysema and had a bad bad cold in April that finished in an asthma like crisis. I just know that form the very beginning on the machine I choked with it and when I tried the fixed pressure I coked even more( seems to be central apneas occurring from the treatment. So anyway thks for answers...now I get I do know that aflex only has a differential of 2...I am more attracted to the fact the bipap follows your personal natural breath more than an aflex...
rux