How to change Intellipap setting

[bueller555]

I picked up a new Intellipap Autoadjust and wanted to change the lower limit from 4.0 to something like 5.0 or 5.5. I can't figure out how to change this setting via the menus. Any help is appreciated.

[Dazed Indian]

Switch ON the CPAP while pressing the ramp key and down arrow key simultaneously, you will enter the clinical setup. Here browse thru and make changes as needed. Switch off and On again

[Emilia]

@ Bueller555: Check your PM's for a message from me.

[A Respiratory Therapist - not just playing on the web]

You should not be entering any clinical menus and changing settings without written permission from you doctor. I had an ALS patient who seriously messed up his settings and entered extremely unsafe settings. I had to lock him out of the clinical menu. This is where the internet is not a good thing. Teaching people how to play loose with their health.

[Wulfman...]

You should not be entering any clinical menus and changing settings without written permission from you doctor. I had an ALS patient who seriously messed up his settings and entered extremely unsafe settings. I had to lock him out of the clinical menu. This is where the internet is not a good thing. Teaching people how to play loose with their health.

Well, maybe if you would have properly educated your patient and worked with him to the point where he trusted you and the two of you had a decent relationship, he probably wouldn't have felt the need to do the "dial wingin'". Ya think?

You're apparently part of the problem and not the solution. Why the Hell do you think people seek out information on the Internet?

Go take your self-righteousness and crawl back into your clinical hole where the information is non-existent. That crap doesn't impress anyone around here. At least we TRY to educate the users.


Den

[Slartybartfast]

Trolling . . . trolling . . . troll . . .

[Guest]

The settings come from a physician not an RT. A sleep study is done to determine appropriate settings. If you are not getting good therapy from those PRESCRIBED settings then you should go back to you doctor and possibly have another sleep study. BTW my patient has some frontal lobe involvement with his ALS and is very erratic. He is on a BIPAP ST not a CPAP. He made his I Time 0.3 sec. It had been set at 1.0. He wasn't using it because it was so messed up.

But if it makes you feel better to slam me then have at it. Do you know what the cardiovascular effects of too much PEEP (CPAP) are? Decreased cardiac return, decreased Ejection fraction. OSA already has a detrimental effect on the heart. That is why sleep studies are done. they measure many different parameters while balancing out relieving the OSA process.
Maybe YOU need to develop a better relationship with Your caregivers so you can feel empowered in that dynamic instead of out here.

[Guest]

The settings come from a physician not an RT. A sleep study is done to determine appropriate settings. If you are not getting good therapy from those PRESCRIBED settings then you should go back to you doctor and possibly have another sleep study. BTW my patient has some frontal lobe involvement with his ALS and is very erratic. He is on a BIPAP ST not a CPAP. He made his I Time 0.3 sec. It had been set at 1.0. He wasn't using it because it was so messed up.

But if it makes you feel better to slam me then have at it. Do you know what the cardiovascular effects of too much PEEP (CPAP) are? Decreased cardiac return, decreased Ejection fraction. OSA already has a detrimental effect on the heart. That is why sleep studies are done. they measure many different parameters while balancing out relieving the OSA process.
Maybe YOU need to develop a better relationship with Your caregivers so you can feel empowered in that dynamic instead of out here.

In my experience, most CPAP users do actively seek out information on how to use their supplies. Most clinics don't even teach that machines have different settings for masks (which don't require access to clinical settings) or that there are two different types of filters for some users! Every little thing on the machine doesn't require another sleep study. One example would be changing an auto machine to a CPAP for a previous user. They know what their constant pressure is and they want to switch the auto off, etc. I feel like your example was in the extreme as most people I talk to don't just willy nilly start adjusting settings with huge discrepancies from what they were prescribed

[Julie]

Most doctors and many techs do not understand the machines, the algorithms, the relationship between all factors, and if children can learn to manage their diabetes, we adults can learn how to use our machines... not rocket science, just plain educated science. Most doctors set machines from 4 to 20, thinking that because they are autos, they'll automatically respond well and in time to apneas that happen at much higher levels (even if only a few per night), but that's not the case, and until lower settings are bumped up by at least 2 cms (and so many eventually end up around 10) they're not being fully treated. We don't do it on a whim, we use software and time, study the graphs, etc. and gauge our reactions to the changes, along with good advice from very knowledgable and experienced people here. We're also well aware of consequences (centrals, Cheyne Stokes) that can occur and proceed accordingly. Locking people out of taking educated control of their own therapy is paternalistic at best, just very wrong at worst. While doctors may have studied the esoteric science of apnea, it doesn't mean they know blip about the equipment. Plus comparing us to ALS patients is ridiculous - whole other set of parameters and issues.

[LSAT]

Gee...Now we have Guest challenging Guest.....

[petebutt43]

I know this is a bit late but I have had a less than perfect experience from my Devillbiss intellipap:

1. the dealer did not set it up to my prescription
2. The dealer did not test it and discover that the water heater did not work ( I went for over a year thinking it was normal for my mouth to feel like death valley every morning)
3. Took machine to service agent - no service engineer available.
4. Service agents still failed to notice that the prescription had not been set properly.
5.Bought another machine to replace the first as the dealer refused to accept responsibility.
6. diagnosed my original machine myself, stripped it and fixed it!!!
6. used this page to set the prescription correctly

I now have a CPAP machine that WORKS at the prescribed levels thanks to you guys. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Julie]

That's terrific, seriously, but just want to clarify 1-2 things...

1 - when you say the dealer didn't set it up to your script, are you very sure the doctor actually gave him one vs just saying to set things for 4+20 ('wide open') as so many doctors do, thinking that because it's an auto it will magically respond to and anticipate every apnea regardless of how high a level it occurs at? That's actually common, maybe even more so than prescribing a more specific setting for the low level one.

2 - Why did you go for over a year without asking about your dry mouth? I would have complained within a week! Plus do you (yet) realize the heating element of the humidifier may have had nothing to do with your problem, but rather it might have been that your mask did not fit well, you're a mouth breather when sleeping, and lost lots of Cpap air that way (dry mouth is always a give away), making it necessary for you to have tried full face masks?

4 - It's not the agent's job to question the prescription setting, only to follow MD's script (see my reply to #1 above).

5 - this may or may not have been a good move given that you blamed them for what might have been the MDs doing.

6 - no comment,

7 - no idea what you mean, but glad you're happy.