Re: Titration
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 1:09 pm
Hello, I'm new to this blog and looking for some help. I am using the Resmed S8 Escape cpap and would like to "up" the titration level a notch or 2 myself. Can I do that at home or do necessarily have to take machine in to my clinician??Anonymous wrote:Titration is a scientific lab term, meaning to slowly add a little bit more of something until you reach a desired effect.
In chem lab 101, your titration was the process by which you slowly added drops (one at a time) of acid to a base until the indicator chemical (I forget the name of it) changed color, at which point, knowing the pH of the acid, you could calculate what the pH of the original base had been.
So titration is the process they use in the sleep lab, slowly increasing the pressure (one drop at a time) until you stop having apneic events (or at least, until they lower to a reasonable threshold), at which point they add two more drops and call that your pressure.