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Re: Exhale Puff index? What does it mean?

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 8:48 am
by a guest
Sillyme-re:EPI..Do your cheeks fill with air with taped mouth? Do you swallow Air? DeVilbiss may record these as EPI also.
Glassjules- If you are mouth-breathing I think your AHI will be low because there is no therapy happening.

Unfortunately I gave up my old DeVilbiss due to runaway pressures affecting my heart rate adversely..ended up in the ER.

Re: Exhale Puff index? What does it mean?

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:03 am
by Sillyme
a guest wrote:Sillyme-re:EPI..Do your cheeks fill with air with taped mouth? Do you swallow Air? DeVilbiss may record these as EPI also.
Glassjules- If you are mouth-breathing I think your AHI will be low because there is no therapy happening.

Unfortunately I gave up my old DeVilbiss due to runaway pressures affecting my heart rate adversely..ended up in the ER.
Don't know what happens when I'm sleeping
Did you quit CPAP? Go to APAP? Change machines? Did you solve the problem?

Re: Exhale Puff index? What does it mean?

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2010 1:42 pm
by a guest
I got a new cpap machine..M series, 2 years ago. After 10 years had to have a new sleep study to get it. I loved my old DeVilbiss as I had the software. Don't have software for the M., which give some data in its display.