Severe chest injury and CPAP?

I'm sorry to hear of this. However, as many have already stated, this requires the intervention of a specialist, not the general advice for which this forum is suited.

BTW, I always did worry about an injury - even a relatively minor one - that would make me unable to use CPAP.

ajack wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:40 pm

It may just be new user, not feeling like he's breathing out, may just be the exhale pressure keeping the lung inflated a bit and is normal, google peep, alveolar recruitment lung injury
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=peep ... e&ie=UTF-8

That was interesting reading. Learned something new today.

Fingers crossed for your family.

kteague wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:21 pm

ajack wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 19, 2018 11:40 pm

It may just be new user, not feeling like he's breathing out, may just be the exhale pressure keeping the lung inflated a bit and is normal, google peep, alveolar recruitment lung injury
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=peep ... e&ie=UTF-8

That was interesting reading. Learned something new today.

Yes, it was interesting, The more I read, the more I realise how much I don't know.

Back again. Trying to cover all bases in seeing why a family member's AHI is running in the teens. He just resumed using CPAP 2 nights ago and his machine numbers are as bad as his original untreated AHI. Does it make any difference if he's using a total face mask but his machine settings don't offer that option? It is set on full. Going to Walmart today to get an SD card and download Sleepyhead for him. I'm sure I'll be back. Just wondering in general if the mask setting matters much. BTW, he said his machine had an SD card while the DME was monitoring his data, but when he was released on his own they took the card out. Now that's penny pinching.

kteague wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:49 pm

Back again. Trying to cover all bases in seeing why a family member's AHI is running in the teens. He just resumed using CPAP 2 nights ago and his machine numbers are as bad as his original untreated AHI. Does it make any difference if he's using a total face mask but his machine settings don't offer that option? It is set on full. Going to Walmart today to get an SD card and download Sleepyhead for him. I'm sure I'll be back. Just wondering in general if the mask setting matters much. BTW, he said his machine had an SD card while the DME was monitoring his data, but when he was released on his own they took the card out. Now that's penny pinching.

The mask options are primarily to compensate for additional resistance in smaller masks (nasal/pillow) where the small openings resist the flow of air, which causes pressure drops in the mask (though they're typically minor ones, what I've measured was at most one cm) so the machine compensates by raising the pressure... so that you get a more accurate pressure in the mask. a total face mask wouldn't have any more flow resistance than a full face mask... so use that setting.

palerider wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 24, 2018 12:59 pm

a total face mask wouldn't have any more flow resistance than a full face mask... so use that setting.

Thanks!

The "Total" mask is known to be very leaky except on particular individuals, so I wonder a) why he's on it and b) why he doesn't try others.

Julie wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 24, 2018 1:53 pm

The "Total" mask is known to be very leaky except on particular individuals, so I wonder a) why he's on it and b) why he doesn't try others.

He said he tried a nasal pillows mask and a full face mask. His nose is narrow and bony - absolutely no fleshy tissue where most masks rest so anything over his nose didn't feel good. His mother-in-law was using the total face mask and he tried it and liked it. Since he's going by only the machine screen, I don't know what his leaks look like, and I don't trust the green smiley face. This morning his wife said his mask was making all kinds of noise for a long period of time, and when she woke him up he found that one side had become unhooked, yet the machine still showed a green smiley face. If his data shows a leak problem, he might decide to try something else.

It takes at least 30% of the night being over 24 L/min leak for Mr Smiley to turn to Mr Frowny.
That's actually a lot of large leak.
See what the reports show.

Sleepyhead is saying sessions are turned off. How do I turn them on?

Sessions are down on the left at the bottom below the statistics.
Scroll down and where you see red click on it to change it to green.
Red the session is turned off and SH doesn't include any of the information or graphs in any calculations.
Green the session is turned on.

See image below. I turned off the first session and left the second session.

Thank you. I clicked to turn the session green. In 2 places on the page it still says sessions are off. Will I need to re-import the data?

The session is green but it still says summary data only. What am I doing wrong?

Was the SD card in the machine during the night when it was used?
If it wasn't or it wasn't properly inserted then there is no other data available besides the summary data.

Plus the duration for the session is whacko...268 hours...not likely.

What kind of machine model?

Which version of SleepyHead