General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.
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LoQ
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by LoQ » Mon Sep 01, 2008 1:48 pm
KansasRT wrote:If you are not breathing (Apnea) then no amount of oxygen would help you.
Are you sure about that? I would think that most people with OSA are breathing
some of the time. During the moments they are breathing, wouldn't a higher concentration of O2 help to make up for desats occurring during apnea events? I don't know, I'm not an expert, but it's just logical that O2 could help an OSA person a little bit, even if it didn't entirely correct the problem.
Certainly it seems to make sense that O2 is not a substitute for CPAP therapy, if that's what a person really needs.
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Goofproof
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by Goofproof » Mon Sep 01, 2008 3:55 pm
LoQ wrote:KansasRT wrote:If you are not breathing (Apnea) then no amount of oxygen would help you.
Are you sure about that? I would think that most people with OSA are breathing
some of the time. During the moments they are breathing, wouldn't a higher concentration of O2 help to make up for desats occurring during apnea events? I don't know, I'm not an expert, but it's just logical that O2 could help an OSA person a little bit, even if it didn't entirely correct the problem.
Certainly it seems to make sense that O2 is not a substitute for CPAP therapy, if that's what a person really needs.
Maybe if you would cut a hole in your lung and insert the O2 hose in. Jim
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