Sleep Apnea & Cardiac Management

seamaiden · Post by **seamaiden** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:32 pm

My dme just received a publication from Respironics: Sleep Apnea- At the Heart of State-of-the-Art Cardiac Management. Knowing it was a severe heart condition that sent me (age 44) to the sleep lab, he sent it along to me. It outlines statistics, studies, and various heart conditions associated with OSA and impact of PAP therapy. Interestingly, throughout it defines PAP therapy as the Gold Standard and lists cpap, bi-level pap, and Auto cpap as the gold standard delivery machines. This is different than what the Respironics Rep recently said to Wader.

ps: My resting heart rate has dropped 40 points after 6 weeks pap therapy! First time under 100 in 20 years, despite highest doses of meds.

LDuyer · Post by **LDuyer** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 2:46 pm

Goodness. That sounds like an interesting publication to read. Great to hear that the pap therapy is having a positive affect on your heart rate. This give encouragement to me as well. Great news! Keep up the good work!

Linda

wading thru the muck! · Post by **wading thru the muck!** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:09 pm

seamaiden,

The order in which you list the machine types is the order in which the Respironics Rep quoted them to me. What exactly is the contradiction between what you recall I reported and the literature you have. As I recall the Rep said the CPAP is the "Gold Standard" and failing that the BiPAP is next in line and the APAP is to be used in a short term capacity for the purpose of verifying Lab titrated pressure. It was outside of his presentation that he said that Resoironics would not have added C-flex to the APAP unless the saw is as having a greater role in the future.

seamaiden · Post by **seamaiden** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:49 pm

Lduyer: Thanks for the kind words. It's not an elaborate paper, just a 6 page oversized brochure, aimed at docs I assume.

Wading: Whereas the Rep told you that "CPAP was the gold standard", throughout this document it says "PAP is the gold standard". At the very end it lists the various types of machines, including cpap, apap etc. It seemed very specific throughout to define PAP (not Cpap) as the gold standard. btw, I've learned a lot from your posts, thank you.

hopeful · Post by **hopeful** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 7:32 pm

One of the more dramatic results I have noticed from my increasing hours on auto cpap, aside from my longer and longer bouts of energy (hooray!), is that the swelling in my ankles has diminished dramatically.

If I'm not mistaken, swollen ankles are an early sign of the heart struggling...

The more I rest, the more I'm convinced there is a whole panoply of symptoms, mostly (and incorrectly) associated with age, that are by-products of sleep apnea...

Captain Nemo · Post by **Captain Nemo** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:09 pm

Seamaiden, did that document by any chance happen to mention Derek's "Sea PAP"?

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gailzee · Post by **gailzee** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:19 pm

very good news and numbers! Great....it's what we've been figuring out all along.

Feel well, ok?

seamaiden wrote:My dme just received a publication from Respironics: Sleep Apnea- At the Heart of State-of-the-Art Cardiac Management. Knowing it was a severe heart condition that sent me (age 44) to the sleep lab, he sent it along to me. It outlines statistics, studies, and various heart conditions associated with OSA and impact of PAP therapy. Interestingly, throughout it defines PAP therapy as the Gold Standard and lists cpap, bi-level pap, and Auto cpap as the gold standard delivery machines. This is different than what the Respironics Rep recently said to Wader.

ps: My resting heart rate has dropped 40 points after 6 weeks pap therapy! First time under 100 in 20 years, despite highest doses of meds.

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