According to Lanky Lefty (Jason, Registered Thicccccccc Polysomnographic Technologist) and Guy Scharf (BlueDragon, OSCAR developer), on ApneaBoard, the F&P SleepStyle does not differentiate the Central and Obstructive Apneas, reporting both as Apneas.
http://www.apneaboard.com/forums/Thread ... #pid414510
TheLankyLefty wrote:The only thing I noticed was that (I believe you told me this already) it doesn’t differentiate Central vs. OSA, but instead labels it as “Apnea.” Overall not a problem since they are inappropriately tagged often.
*UPDATE*BlueDragon wrote:Regarding CA and OA, I have no idea how the SleepStyle works internally; I just know what it reports. As far as OSCAR is concerned, combing the two types of apneas into one just required some code adjustments to report the data as InfoSmart reported it.
Earlier n the topic an F&P InfoSmart graphic was displayed that shows the capability differentiating between CAs and OAs.
This suggests on of the following:
- Lanky Lefty and the OSCAR team are incorrect and the SleepStyle does differentiate and report OAs and CAs, but the data is encoded in such a way that the OSCAR development team isn't aware of the difference.
- The SleepStyle doesn't differentiate between the OAs and CAs in the reporting, but the InfoSmart software reevaluates the raw reported data and evaluates whether it's an OA or CA when generating the report.
- There has been an update to the SleepStyle reported data since LL and BD commented and or the OSCAR team worked on the SleepStyle data import.
In either case it's a pretty safe assumption that the OSCAR team made an attempt to report on OAs and CAs and was not able to, thus the row header of A (for Apneas) and Guy Scharf's comment.