General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
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slowriter
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by slowriter » Wed Oct 23, 2019 5:20 am
raisedfist wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 7:42 pm
The lab doesn't always get things right. Most scoring of events is automatic these days and then someone just signs off on it. I would go with the better machine (ResMed) and don't worry about anything else.
Your last point is the key point.
But regardless of whether the tech (whom I talked to, and I believe is highly competent) scored it manually or auto, that scoring had access to EEG data that the PAP machines don't.
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slowriter
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by slowriter » Wed Oct 23, 2019 5:25 am
Pugsy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:51 pm
slowriter wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 6:37 pm
~45 days of zero machine reported RERAs, then at same settings in the lab many RERAs scored by the technician doesn't tell us something?
Certainly suggests to me the likelihood was extremely high I was getting RERAs that the machine wasn't reporting.
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Sleep status is really needed to confirm RERA because an arousal needs to be seen (so we have to be asleep first) and the machine doesn't have any way to know if we are asleep or not.
The best it does when it flags a RERA is say that our breathing "looks like the breathing that happens after an respiratory related arousal".
Exactly.
I personally suspect some time-strapped sleep docs like the idea of the RERA reporting because they can see the numbers on their reporting software (airview and such), without having to spend the time to look at detailed machine data.
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mper!?
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by mper!? » Wed Oct 23, 2019 6:36 am
hombreingwar wrote: ↑Tue Oct 22, 2019 11:49 am
So I got UARS RDI 13 diagnosed in Jefferson (philadelphia) Sleep Center two weeks ago.
My AHI is only 1 or 2, and I'm not eligible for CPAP coverage according to Jefferson's ENT doctor.
First strong indication you would suffer from UARS/FL/RERA (flagged or not). And, for this, I still waiting to see a solution, even partial, out of BPAP; others, great chances you are going loose money and time (it happened to me and many tens of others I have been following). And, as far as I known, Arisense10 vauto Resmed would the best one.
good luck
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