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bouncer wrote:Sorry for my ignorance, but what is an IHT?

In Home Test

Does it really take 4 consecutive posts to say the same thing? Just like AMESS...are you sure you are not a couple?

xxyzx wrote:

bouncer wrote:OK thank you for all your replies - very helpful. So, if we tried CPAP 4 or 5 (continuous) as a starting point, would an AHI reading of 5 or less be classed as "normal" (assuming 4 or 5 gave no theraputic input) and no treatment necessary.

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it would be meaningless
cpap is not a diagnostic tool

You're such a moron! Just shut up, because you have no idea what you're talking about.

CPAP (and APAP) machines have been used to diagnose sleep apnea for decades. Primarily when the user could not make it through an in-lab sleep study. Kaiser Healthcare still uses them in that way.
Even the sleep lab machines (Respironics and P/R OmniLab machines) are multi-mode machines (including CPAP mode).
Many of the earlier Respironics APAP machines had a "Split Night" mode which was used for the first four hours at a lower fixed pressure and then switched to APAP mode.

xxyzx wrote:

Guest wrote:

xxyzx wrote:

bouncer wrote:OK thank you for all your replies - very helpful. So, if we tried CPAP 4 or 5 (continuous) as a starting point, would an AHI reading of 5 or less be classed as "normal" (assuming 4 or 5 gave no theraputic input) and no treatment necessary.

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it would be meaningless
cpap is not a diagnostic tool

You're such a moron! Just shut up, because you have no idea what you're talking about.

CPAP (and APAP) machines have been used to diagnose sleep apnea for decades. Primarily when the user could not make it through an in-lab sleep study. Kaiser Healthcare still uses them in that way.
Even the sleep lab machines (Respironics and P/R OmniLab machines) are multi-mode machines (including CPAP mode).
Many of the earlier Respironics APAP machines had a "Split Night" mode which was used for the first four hours at a lower fixed pressure and then switched to APAP mode.

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ROTFLMAO

that would be a surprise the the AASM and others in the field

Only if a logical fallacy indirect diagnosis were claimed by using a cpap and seeing if the AHI was low
you have nothing to compare it with to prove it worked to make a real diagnosis

You just keep demonstrating your utter stupidity! MORON!!!

xxyzx wrote:that would be a surprise the the AASM and others in the field

lol It's very basic. No surprises.

xxyzx wrote:logic and facts always look stupid to you libturds

Well, Lobturd, you're wrong again. I'm a raging conservative. NOT a hypocritical liberal, like YOU.

You can't HANDLE the facts! (or logic, or the truth)

Gosh - I'm beginning to wish I'd never asked. Thank you for all your replies .... perhaps it would be better if we closed this subject.

xxyzx wrote:

Guest wrote:

xxyzx wrote:logic and facts always look stupid to you libturds

Well, Lobturd, you're wrong again. I'm a raging conservative. NOT a hypocritical liberal, like YOU.

You can't HANDLE the facts! (or logic, or the truth)

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yet you pass the duck test for acting looking posting like a libtard

And, LOBTURD, you pass the duck test for a raging, hypocritical liberal. Yelling disgusting epithets and rantings at everyone else.
You remind me of lying Hillary claiming that every woman has a right to be heard if violated by a man, except for all of those who were violated by Billy Boy. She tried to ruin their lives.
Or, why she lost the election last year ( and 2008 ). "It's everybody else's fault."

STOP with all the stupid stuff you post. You're an embarrassment to this forum. STOP being one of the reasons people leave.

bouncer wrote:Gosh - I'm beginning to wish I'd never asked. Thank you for all your replies .... perhaps it would be better if we closed this subject.

They would just move on to another thread.