Resmed Apnea Link Air HSAT manual & question

Two questions about the home sleep study apparatus Apnea Link Air:

1) Is there a publicly available clinicians manual (that will hopefully have the technical specifications)?
2) Is the patient expected to ONLY breathe through the nostrils? (Are lips taped to prevent airflow through the mouth)

Tec5 wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 06, 2022 9:43 pm

Two questions about the home sleep study apparatus Apnea Link Air:

1) Is there a publicly available clinicians manual (that will hopefully have the technical specifications)?

lmgtfy-
https://www.manualslib.com/manual/19900 ... k-Air.html

@Zonker:
Thanks. Have you personally used manualslib.com?
The link you sent sends me to a download that:
1) attempts to install a Trojan Horse
2) Attempts to reconfigure Chrome
3) install a new default browser

Not a particularly pleasant trip.

Having used that site before, I downloaded this manual to see what would happen. No prob. I have a PDF of the manual.

Just downloaded the manual just fine, no Trojans, Chrome reconfigs or changing the default browser.

Tec5 wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 07, 2022 2:53 pm

@Zonker:
Thanks. Have you personally used manualslib.com?
The link you sent sends me to a download that:
1) attempts to install a Trojan Horse
2) Attempts to reconfigure Chrome
3) install a new default browser

Not a particularly pleasant trip.

yes, with no problems.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
and cg and ds seem to have no troubles either.

Ok, I’ll try it again but Webroot ( my virus protection) really did not like it.

For those of you who did successfully download ( zonker, dog, granny ) what did the the clinic manual say about preventing flow through the mouth ( thereby bypassing flow measurement by the nasal probes)?

Tec5 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:57 am

Ok, I’ll try it again but Webroot ( my virus protection) really did not like it.

For those of you who did successfully download ( zonker, dog, granny ) what did the the clinic manual say about preventing flow through the mouth ( thereby bypassing flow measurement by the nasal probes)?

go back to the site. you can view the manual online. really no need to download it.

i haven't downloaded this particular manual. i've successfully dled manuals from the site before.

Tec5 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:57 am

what did the the clinic manual say about preventing flow through the mouth ( thereby bypassing flow measurement by the nasal probes)?

That's not the kind of information that is in a device clinical manual.

Just tape your lips shut.

ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:11 pm

Tec5 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 5:57 am

what did the the clinic manual say about preventing flow through the mouth ( thereby bypassing flow measurement by the nasal probes)?

That's not the kind of information that is in a device clinical manual.

Just tape your lips shut.

It may be that preventing flow through the oral route is not mentioned, but there are other admonitions. There is no mention of avoiding oral breathing in the patient instructions,

Unless a patient is told to tape their lips shut, the flows that are recorded may be incorrect.
Seems to me that sort of instruction should be provided to a patient who is using this system at home.

Tec5 wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:31 pm

Seems to me that sort of instruction should be provided to a patient who is using this system at home.

Maybe, but by the individual's medical team and not in the equipment manufacturer's clinical manual.

The most important issue here is that flows measured by cannula prongs will miss oral flow.

If there is oral flow, studies that do not account for it are inaccurate as those studies do not measure the flow to the lungs (air flow to and from the lungs is the point of concern).