EPAP vs. Pressure

Jcastellaw · Post by **Jcastellaw** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:21 pm

I notice there’s a difference of 1. What’s the difference?

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:19 pm

Jcastellaw wrote: ↑
Fri Feb 08, 2019 10:21 pm
I notice there’s a difference of 1. What’s the difference?

You're really going to have to either provide a little more information about what you're talking about, or wait for the mindreaders to get back off break.

Jcastellaw · Post by **Jcastellaw** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:21 am

Red Line vs Green line. And there’s no need in being a Smart ass!

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:00 am

EPAP is exhale pressure or the green line

the regular minimum pressure is the top line or inhale pressure...the red line

the 1 cm drop from inhale is just a function of the exhale relief which is called EPR for exhale pressure relief on a ResMed machine

Your EPR is set to 1. If it was set to 2 then there would be a 2 cm drop.

Your setting is 10 minimum so that is the inhale pressure....it drops to 9 during exhale because EPR is set to 1.

EPAP is showing less in the statistics because you are using the ramp function to start lower and work up to the 10 cm minimum.
So the minimum EPAP is lower than 9 in the statistics column because the short period of time that ramp is being used.

You might want to read up on what the machine's various functions do.
https://www.respshop.com/manuals/ResMed ... %20her.pdf
This manual is more comprehensive than the user manual you may have received with the machine.

Jas_williams · Post by **Jas_williams** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:03 am

You have your EPR Exhale Pressure Relief set at one so when you breath out your exhale pressure (epap) is one cm less than your inhale pressure (ipap) so what’s your question as everything is working as designed

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:22 am

Jcastellaw wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:21 am
Red Line vs Green line. And there’s no need in being a Smart ass!

Oh, I think there was, in light of the way the question was posed

Jcastellaw · Post by **Jcastellaw** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 4:54 am

So basically you don’t have the answer and instead of helping, you decide to chastise someone for asking a question and you still don’t have the answer? People come here looking for help and your response solves what???

Jcastellaw · Post by **Jcastellaw** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:11 am

Pugsy wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 09, 2019 1:00 am
EPAP is exhale pressure or the green line

the regular minimum pressure is the top line or inhale pressure...the red line

the 1 cm drop from inhale is just a function of the exhale relief which is called EPR for exhale pressure relief on a ResMed machine

Your EPR is set to 1. If it was set to 2 then there would be a 2 cm drop.

Your setting is 10 minimum so that is the inhale pressure....it drops to 9 during exhale because EPR is set to 1.

EPAP is showing less in the statistics because you are using the ramp function to start lower and work up to the 10 cm minimum.
So the minimum EPAP is lower than 9 in the statistics column because the short period of time that ramp is being used.

You might want to read up on what the machine's various functions do.
https://www.respshop.com/manuals/ResMed ... %20her.pdf
This manual is more comprehensive than the user manual you may have received with the machine.

Thank you! Very informative without being a Paleface SmartA$$!

CPAPjunkie · Post by **CPAPjunkie** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:20 am

Someone gets cranky when he isn’t sleeping

Should try a snickers bar

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 8:20 am

Jcastellaw wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 09, 2019 5:11 am
Thank you! Very informative without being a Paleface SmartA$$!

Well....to be fair I didn't respond initially when I saw your first question because I had no idea what you were talking about.
My mind reading skills not working so great lately.

Once I saw your image I then knew what you were likely wondering about.
Your question wording skills maybe weren't so optimal. You didn't give us much to go on.

We have some forum members here who are pretty blunt and direct and yes...sometimes in the smart ass category intentionally or unintentionally.
When people have a question they need to try to clearly explain the question to get the best answer. We want to give as accurate of an answer as possible.

Please try to refrain from name calling attacks no matter how much you might feel they are deserved or not.
That's not really needed or helpful and to be honest "we aren't mind readers" was the very first thought through my mind when I saw your question without the image to help me know what you were talking about. I just didn't say it because someone else did.
If Palerider hadn't said it....I most likely would have.

It's the truth and sometimes the truth comes across as being ugly...I wouldn't have meant it to be ugly but you might have taken it that I was being a smart ass...and I really didn't mean it in that context.

palerider · Post by **palerider** » Sat Feb 09, 2019 12:39 pm

Jcastellaw wrote: ↑
Sat Feb 09, 2019 4:54 am
So basically you don’t have the answer and instead of helping, you decide to chastise someone for asking a question and you still don’t have the answer? People come here looking for help and your response solves what???

I know what Pressure and "epap" on a *sleepyhead* report mean, but your question was unnecessarily vague.

I could have *guessed* that you were talking about the way sleepyhead reports stuff on cpap machines... and told you something about that.

However, I don't like *guessing* because you might have been asking something else, people frequently ask things without having any clue what they're talking about, then someone guesses and answers something completely incorrect or inappropriate, and then the person asking ends up going off in the wrong direction.

Entitled people are used to others pandering to their incompetence these days.

Not being able to form a coherent question and demanding that someone else figure out what the hell you're talking about...
and then harping about it...

You're as bad as someone on another forum who said "I have a red water symbol in the lower left hand corner of the cpap machine. What is this? I have been on the machine for only 2 days." Without even bothering to hint at what machine they have.... expecting people to read their tiny mind.

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