Should my friend be concerned?

My friend recently started to use sleepy head and kind of new to this stuff. She has a Resmed Vauto machine. She sent me some of her data and wanted to know if there is any reason to be concerned. She didn't have any screenshots (although I asked her to send them). I noticed that her respiratory rate and minute vent is pretty low. she has a sleep doctor that she goes to to help adjust her pressures.

Also another concern is that her Spontaneous trigger % on the VAuto is only 39%. I have a VAuto as well and mine is always in the high 90 percentile. Is this even a concern?


But here are her respiratory and minute vent numbers.

Minute Vent.Amount of air displaced per minute (L/min)
W-Avg: 8.14
0.00
7.50. Med
12.50 95%
17.38. MAX

Resp. RateRate of breaths per minute (Breaths/min)
W-Avg: 10.53
0.00
10.00. Med
14.80 95%
17.60 MAX

Her numbers for Respiration rate and minute vent are well within norms. Norms vary widely between individuals for any number of reasons.
Short vs tall, male vs female, skinny vs fat, altitude, overall health, small bone structure vs big bone structure, sleep stage... etc.

Thanks Pugsy. What about the spontaneous trigger %?

Audio_mc wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:06 am

Thanks Pugsy. What about the spontaneous trigger %?

I figured you would ask me that question but I don't know the answer to that one. Sorry.
Wait for Palerider to get up (he's a night owl) and let's see what his thoughts might be.
That has to do with something on the VAuto that I don't have on my machine and when I did have the bilevel I never messed the settings that could impact trigger. So no personal experience to draw from. Palerider has the personal experience.

Ok thank you Pugsy!

Audio_mc wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:06 am

Thanks Pugsy. What about the spontaneous trigger %?

As far as I know, there is no spontaneous trigger % on the VAuto, since it's a 100% spontaneous machine, there's no other kind of trigger on the VAuto.

What's the REF number on the back of the machine? (both of them).

palerider wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:34 am

Audio_mc wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:06 am

Thanks Pugsy. What about the spontaneous trigger %?

As far as I know, there is no spontaneous trigger % on the VAuto, since it's a 100% spontaneous machine, there's no other kind of trigger on the VAuto.

What's the REF number on the back of the machine? (both of them).

The spontaneous trigger is likely to be relating to the tiControl settings a low % of spontaneous trigger could indicate to small a tiMax setting but the graphs might help

Jas_williams wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 12:51 pm

palerider wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:34 am

Audio_mc wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:06 am

Thanks Pugsy. What about the spontaneous trigger %?

As far as I know, there is no spontaneous trigger % on the VAuto, since it's a 100% spontaneous machine, there's no other kind of trigger on the VAuto.

What's the REF number on the back of the machine? (both of them).

The spontaneous trigger is likely to be relating to the tiControl settings a low % of spontaneous trigger could indicate to small a tiMax setting but the graphs might help

How's that work? The vauto is purely spontaneous, it's either triggered spontaneously, or it's not triggered at all. TiMax only comes in to play after the machine has been triggered.

palerider wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 11:34 am

Audio_mc wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 25, 2019 8:06 am

Thanks Pugsy. What about the spontaneous trigger %?

As far as I know, there is no spontaneous trigger % on the VAuto, since it's a 100% spontaneous machine, there's no other kind of trigger on the VAuto.

What's the REF number on the back of the machine? (both of them).

Thanks Palerider. I will ask my friend for this information and get back to you

I actually meant spontaneous Cycle percentage not trigger!

Audio_mc wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 26, 2019 5:07 pm

I actually meant spontaneous Cycle percentage not trigger!

That's a whole different kettle of fish... and while he got the terms wrong Jas did spot what would need to be changed..

As I said in my PM reply to your PM, raise the TiMax number to something larger, 3 or 4... I don't know why ResMed has it defaulting to 2 (seconds)... anybody that likes taking long slow breaths will run into that TiMax limitation at 2... I did.

Thank you!