found this on the American Lung Association of the Central Coast website.
Link here
The conclusions are great!
Powerpoint Presentation Advocating Autopap
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rock and roll
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Re: Powerpoint Presentation Advocating Autopap
Excellent presentation. They could've saved a lot of $ and just tuned ''us'' in, eh? But now that I can follow my progress, I absolutely am the model of lower pressure on apap is keeping my aps/pop's AHI number to a 1-2. Beats the 41 I had at the titration study.
My average pressure has only spiked once in over 1 mo. to a ten. So higher pressure originally Rx'd me, was too high for me at 14.
Maybe community will admit we finally know what we're talking about, WE CA HOPE.
sign me: glad to see a presentation in a positive light .....re: treatment with apap.
My average pressure has only spiked once in over 1 mo. to a ten. So higher pressure originally Rx'd me, was too high for me at 14.
Maybe community will admit we finally know what we're talking about, WE CA HOPE.
sign me: glad to see a presentation in a positive light .....re: treatment with apap.
Mikesus wrote:found this on the American Lung Association of the Central Coast website.
Link here
The conclusions are great!
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rested gal
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Mikesus, absolutely great link! Thanks!
rock and roll's right - doctors all over the country should see that. Especially...ummm...sleep doctors? heheh
In case anyone wonders about the credentials of the doctor who prepared that powerpoint presentation in favor of bypassing formal PSG sleep studies for some patients and putting them right on autopap from the get-go:
Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH, FCCP
Professor, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Director of the Samaritan Sleep Center
Department of Internal Medicine
University of KY College of Medicine
Lexington, KY
rock and roll's right - doctors all over the country should see that. Especially...ummm...sleep doctors? heheh
In case anyone wonders about the credentials of the doctor who prepared that powerpoint presentation in favor of bypassing formal PSG sleep studies for some patients and putting them right on autopap from the get-go:
Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH, FCCP
Professor, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Director of the Samaritan Sleep Center
Department of Internal Medicine
University of KY College of Medicine
Lexington, KY
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wading thru the muck!
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Mike,
Your on a roll, finding all this great stuff!
A couple points to take note of:
Conclusion: 40% could go straight to APAP with only 7% of those being falsely identified of which some would still benefit from the treatment.
As an example: for every 250 patients, 100 could go straight to APAP and of the 100, only 7 would be falsely identified, but of the 7 at least a few would likely have mild symptoms and could benefit from the treatment anyway.
Conclusion: It is illogical to spend more time and money to diagnose OSA than is spent to treat it, especially considering the treatment is safe, cheap and effective and that untreated OSA can kill.
Because of the high cost of getting diagnosed, many people are unable to take advantage of the relatively low cost of treatment because they are unable to pay for the cost to obtain a diagnosis. This is an example of the medical community losing site of their goal to treat illness and not to diagnose illness.
Your on a roll, finding all this great stuff!
A couple points to take note of:
Conclusion: 40% could go straight to APAP with only 7% of those being falsely identified of which some would still benefit from the treatment.
As an example: for every 250 patients, 100 could go straight to APAP and of the 100, only 7 would be falsely identified, but of the 7 at least a few would likely have mild symptoms and could benefit from the treatment anyway.
Conclusion: It is illogical to spend more time and money to diagnose OSA than is spent to treat it, especially considering the treatment is safe, cheap and effective and that untreated OSA can kill.
Because of the high cost of getting diagnosed, many people are unable to take advantage of the relatively low cost of treatment because they are unable to pay for the cost to obtain a diagnosis. This is an example of the medical community losing site of their goal to treat illness and not to diagnose illness.
Sincerely,
wading thru the muck of the sleep study/DME/Insurance money pit!
wading thru the muck of the sleep study/DME/Insurance money pit!
I believe she was at the Lecture this evening... Very interesting group of folks there!!rested gal wrote:Mikesus, absolutely great link! Thanks!
rock and roll's right - doctors all over the country should see that. Especially...ummm...sleep doctors? heheh
In case anyone wonders about the credentials of the doctor who prepared that powerpoint presentation in favor of bypassing formal PSG sleep studies for some patients and putting them right on autopap from the get-go:
Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH, FCCP
Professor, Division of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Director of the Samaritan Sleep Center
Department of Internal Medicine
University of KY College of Medicine
Lexington, KY
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