ResScan 3.4 Data

[Slinky]

Interesting. One of our complaints about ResScan 3.4 is that we can no longer export our data in .pdf format.

I was just playing around w/it today and decided to prepare a report just to see what a report w/ResLink and oximetry added looked like. If you opt to Print that report and just look thru it before you print it to decide which pages you want and which you don't and take a look at the top tool bar - the report is in .pdf format.

I didn't have time to print it out or think to check to see if I could save it w/o printing but will do so later. And try to see what I can do, if anything given my limited 'puter skills, about exporting that file to Excel and what it turns out like in Excel.

[Velbor]

.... One of our complaints about ResScan 3.4 is that we can no longer export our data in .pdf format. .... later. And try to see what I can do, if anything .... about exporting that file to Excel

ResScan (at least since v3.3) has been able to output its reports as a .pdf file. AutoScan could not do that. But AutoScan could export both summary and detail data as an Excel-compatible .csv file. ResScan (at least through v3.5) cannot do this. There are indications that future ResScan versions may provide some Excel-compatible export capability, but how this will be implemented remains to be seen.

[tchuster]

This may not be the right place to ask this question, but I'm new and I don't know how to navigate thru this site yet. Just yesterday, I read a thread about how to download data from a Resmed S8 Autoset II by a software called ResScan 3.4 or 3.5 and a card reader. Then I was led to related threads about how someone got the software from Australia and the reader had to be modified to read the smaller Resmed card. Another person said that without the software, you can see the data on the LCD screen. Then I got lost in cyberspace and couldn't find those posts. What I need to know is how to either read the data on the LCD or get the software and the card reader so that I can download data to my computer to read it. I called Resmed and was told the software is the only way but it was for professionals only. I remembered the member named Velbor was very knowledgeable about this topic. Can Velbor or someone help me with this? Thanks.

[Velbor]

This may not be the right place to ask this question, but I'm new and I don't know how to navigate thru this site yet. Just yesterday, I read a thread about how to download data from a Resmed S8 Autoset II by a software called ResScan 3.4 or 3.5 and a card reader. Then I was led to related threads about how someone got the software from Australia and the reader had to be modified to read the smaller Resmed card. Another person said that without the software, you can see the data on the LCD screen. Then I got lost in cyberspace and couldn't find those posts. What I need to know is how to either read the data on the LCD or get the software and the card reader so that I can download data to my computer to read it. I called Resmed and was told the software is the only way but it was for professionals only. I remembered the member named Velbor was very knowledgeable about this topic. Can Velbor or someone help me with this? Thanks.

"Lost in cyberspace" is a very fitting and understandable phrase. Most of the information you have been trying to digest is correct, even though some of it may seem contradictory. Let's try to work through a bit of it, but not too much all at once.

It appears that ResMed has implemented a policy IN THE US of not providing its current software to online retailers for sale. You can get ResScan version 3.3 from CPAP.com (the sponsor of this discussion forum), but that version does not support your machine. It has been reported that if you buy version 3.3 and then contact ResMed in Australia, they MIGHT provide you with an updated version. Sleep labs and sleep doctors have them, and MIGHT part with copies (the trick is to find the right staff member!). Non-internet-based sellers (what are often called B&M DME's - Brick & Mortar [they work out of physical rather than virtual locations] Durable Medical Equipment distributors) do have the current software, and MIGHT sell them (though that's a long shot). There's a current topic which you might want to read very carefully: viewtopic/t34365/Software-for-ResMed.html

The card readers which are sold BY ResMed do not need any modification; the posts that talk about modification were principally for tech types who might purchase a less expensive card reader and then fiddle. Nothing from ResMed comes cheaply. (But if you do shop around online, remember that advertised prices are not always the lowest available prices, and that many sellers - like CPAP.com - will match legitimate lower price offers.)

The software and card reader are highly recommended, particularly for someone such as yourself with an AutoPAP. But some basic data is always available from your machine's LCD screen. Let us know if you have trouble accessing (hold left and right keys simultaneously) and understanding that information, and you'll get assistance here.

Many thanks for your kind comments as to my alleged knowledge; everyone here will do their best to help you make your adjustment to CPAP as painless and as rewarding as possible. You've found a very helpful forum here; keep reading, keep asking questions, keep learning, and keep lines of informed communication with your medical specialists open.

Regards, Velbor

[wireless]

Slinky or anyone else -- I am not sure, but I think my ResScan 3.5 is only saving and downloading ONE detailed session? The manual says it's supposed to do something like 5 detailed sessions, or at least 3... Is there a setting I need to change?

[Slinky]

Look to the left of the screen after the download. There should be a vertical row with dates. Those nights w/full data will consist of red bars & a green bar, those w/full data wil consists of the same but w/blue squiggly lines above the bars.

On the Statistics page in the upper left corner it says Viewing Range follow by a rectangular box that says 1 Day followed by a box w/a down arrow. Click on the down arrow. Select the period of time you want to view the data from.

[wireless]

Oh, yes I know that part. I mean, when I put the card into my VPAP and then the card reader, it seems to only have 1 detailed session available to download!

[Snoredog]

can you Print all that data? does it allow that?

If so, you can install a free CutePDF writer as a printer, then simply select it as your printer when you go to print, it will then pop up with a box for a filename.pdf and were you want to put it, it takes all print output and writes that to a PDF file.

Mac's already have a capabiliity built-in, but you can add it to your Windows PC

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

simple to install simple to use, yes, built for you Slinky

[Velbor]

Oh, yes I know that part. I mean, when I put the card into my VPAP and then the card reader, it seems to only have 1 detailed session available to download!

As best I can tell, ResScan software requires you to highlight the date on the left side bar (the top five dates should be marked as having detail data) and then individually "load" the detail data for each date into the "review" function. If you go to another date, you have to re-load one you previously looked at. Seems as though the software only keeps one night of detail data at a time in active memory. Not saying I like it; just saying that's the way it appears to work.

Velbor

[Slinky]

Ah, yes, you understood the question better than I, Velbor!!!

AND, when using the S8 ResLink & oximeter you can't download the oximeter data unless you FIRST download the detailed data. PLUS you cannot, as far as I've been able to determine, access more than just any one night of oximetry data, i.e. you can't access a week's average of oximetry data.

[wireless]

Hm.

Well, I know that after you choose a date, you go to Detailed Graphs, and it has that little button to load the data for that one date.

Yesterday and the day before yesterday, I went to my VPAP, and inserted the card. It said copy complete, and then I inserted it into my card reader. I did a "All available data" download each time. Now, in the date column, I have the good icon (both detailed & summary data) for yesterday and the day before yesterday. But, why don't I have detailed data 4 days back? Those just have the summary data. So it seems to be only getting 1 day at a time.

Oh, one day is probably lost because I am waiting until after 12 noon, but I thought I should still have more than this?

Wasn't there some other thread recently where there was some option you had to choose to make it save more than one day? But maybe that was for different software and/or different machine.

[Velbor]

Wireless,

I have no explanation for what you're describing. In fact, if you're opening your "patient file" before doing each download, and doing the download at least once every 5 days, detail data for EVERY day should be saved on your computer, even though the machine and the card only keep 5 days. I know of no other special settings or options, as long as you do the download for "all available data" as you are doing. Sorry I can't be of more help.

Velbor

[wireless]

Yeah, strange. I did download it into the same patient profile, and attempted a second profile even. Thanks though! Perhaps I should try erasing all the data off my machine and/or the card.

[billbolton]

I did a "All available data" download each time.

I'm not sure what the other descriptions above were all about, but they seem to be making what is a relatively simple and straightforward operation overly complex!

With ResScan 3.5 I pick the "Selected data" radio button, then tick the "Selected detailed data sessions" tick box, then select the number of detailed session I want... and it loads them! If you try to load data onto a date record that already has data loaded, it will give you the option of discarding that data from the card (that is, not overloading) or discarding the data in the record and overloading it with the data from the card,

(Note: You can only ever get the most recent 5 detailed sessions using a ResScan card, but there are some other clinical connectivity solutions which give greater depth of detailed data for some specific sleep-lab type set ups, so there are choices for larger amounts of data.)

Cheers,

Bill

[wireless]

Thanks, Bill, maybe it will work if I use that method, for some reason.

You mean the ResLink option, right? For getting more data, are there other options?