How do I help my Father with CPAP

robysue1 wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 12:30 pm

It's important to try to tease out exactly what your father means when he says he's working too much to just breathe.

Yea that is the challenge sometimes.

When we first got this machine he was complaining that it was exhausting him making him keep inhaling way longer than he wanted to.

Thanks for the more detailed explanation. I will see if I can figure a little more of this out.

Well dang, the videos I have found all seem to be for the bi level version and Dad has the ASV version and I'm having trouble figuring out how to change the trigger, cycle or Ti settings because the menu doesn't seem to be the same as the videos I have found.

All I seem to have access to is epap min-max and pressure support min-max and then ramp time and starting epap. We have been using ASV Auto but when I looked in ASV I didn't see any of those other settings!?!?!? is there some additional thing I need to do beyond just getting into the clinical menu?

TCLynx wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 5:53 pm

Well dang, the videos I have found all seem to be for the bi level version and Dad has the ASV version and I'm having trouble figuring out how to change the trigger, cycle or Ti settings because the menu doesn't seem to be the same as the videos I have found.

I've done some googling, and while I can't find the clinical manual on-line, I did find this piece of advertising aimed at clinicians: https://document.resmed.com/en-us/docum ... er_eng.pdf

It does in fact seem to be the case that the AirCurve ASV doesn't have Trigger, Control, Ti_Min, or Ti_Max since there's no "dot" in the ASV column for those things. I apologize for misleading you, but I don't use an ASV and I thought that it would have the same kind of fine tuning clinical controls that the AirCurve 10 VAuto does.

I know it's frustrating, but you and your father might need to mention the fact that the machine seems to be out of sync with his breathing to the sleep doc's office and see what, if anything, they have to say.

It is still worth seeing if increasing the min PS makes it easier or harder for your father to breathe with the machine.

robysue1 wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 6:30 pm

I apologize for misleading you, but I don't use an ASV and I thought that it would have the same kind of fine tuning clinical controls that the AirCurve 10 VAuto does.

I know it's frustrating, but you and your father might need to mention the fact that the machine seems to be out of sync with his breathing to the sleep doc's office and see what, if anything, they have to say.

It is still worth seeing if increasing the min PS makes it easier or harder for your father to breathe with the machine.

Not your fault, even the book that comes with the machine mentions those controls because they send the same book with both the bi pap and asv machines!!!

Spent some time today trying to get him to wear the mask and just breathe and let me know what felt ok and what was uncomfortable. But he is having a bad Lewy Body Dementia fluctuation today and is really confused. It is a real bummer too because he tries soooo hard. Unfortunately TOO hard because we just want him to relax and breathe but instead he is trying to the point of NOT relaxing.

I turned off the ramp and have the min pressure support on 1. I don't think I should up that any more right now because when it was higher he really couldn't sleep with it. When I tried adjusting the epap up he seemed to complain about it.
Right now we are at epap 4-4 and PS 1-8 which means Ipap is from 5-12.

Hopefully the aide is able to reassure him tonight and get him to wear it for more than an hour.