understanding the numbers

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jacko
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understanding the numbers

Post by jacko » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:02 pm

Good Morning
I have just had alook at this mornings read out
I do have a better understanding of the numbers now after the info from some of you yesterday
But I thought I would ask about todays
Press 8.6 down from 10
Leak 0.28
AHI 3.8 down from 6
AI 0.4
HI 3.4 down from 5.6
just wondering if these are real numbers and what range is normal on cpap
Thanks for the help yesterday .This is a great site
Regards Jacko


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Post by GoofyUT » Tue Jun 27, 2006 3:25 pm

Congrats! Your numbers are looking good. Any AHI<5.0 is considered to be normal. Your AI is VERY good. Your HI would be considered to be acceptable by most anyone. If you are using a ResMed machine, these may in fact, be artifactual. But your AHI<5.0 is the key.

Your leakage at 0.28L/s is OK, but on the highish side (I take it that you are using ResMed, since only ResMed reports in L/sec. rather than L/min., and your number makes sense only as L/s.) However, I'd pay attention to your leak stats if I was you, since if it got higher (>0.40L/s) it might begin to degrade the ResMed algorithm.

Other than that, it looks like you're in GREAT shape! Congrats!

Chuck

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