Can Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Titrate Their Own

Babette · Post by **Babette** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:42 pm

....Continuous Positive Airway Pressure?

Can Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Titrate Their Own Continuous Positive Airway Pressure?

Michael F. Fitzpatrick, Christi E. D. Alloway, Tracy M. Wakeford, Alistair W. MacLean, Peter W. Munt and Andrew G. Day

Departments of Medicine and Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/conte ... /167/5/716

Things you find while Googling something else...
B.

rested gal · Post by **rested gal** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 12:06 am

Thanks for bringing it to the front, Babette! Always a good read.

Mikesus was the first one I know of who posted that great link:

viewtopic.php?t=1770
Mar 08, 2005 subject: Can Patients with OSA Titrate their own Pressure

Mike practically buried it in two clickable little words at the end of his post, though:
His easy to miss "Link Here" which goes to the study you found, Babette:
http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/conte ... /167/5/716

I've used that link a lot, along with another cool one that Mikesus found:

http://www.alaccoast.org/pdf/Phillips_0830.pdf
Not Every Patient Needs To Go to the Sleep Lab. November 19, 2004. Barbara Phillips, MD, MSPH