Remstar Auto Interpreting results

Hmmmm? · Post by **Hmmmm?** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:20 pm

Otto Pap wrote:
Lg leak: 306 min
"Large leak" reflects a condition for which your machine may not properly compensate. Even though your data appears good at first glance, that 306 minutes of "large leak" is actually 306 minutes of potentially skewed data and therefore 306 minutes of potentially skewed treatment!

Hmmmm......would the above be true if my setting is 10 to 15 cm and the treatment remained at 10cm during treatment? Pressure didn't change all night (yes, the unit is working fine). Since pressure hadn't changed and more importantly didn't reach the max setting, I would thing that I was receiving proper treatment. Also, how would having large leaks skew treatment? My thinking is that as long as the unit is supplying enough O2 to meet the demand of the leak and to meet treatment, why should it matter.

Thanks for responding,
Stan

Hmmmm? · Post by **Hmmmm?** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 9:30 pm

[quote="fnorette"]In my case, a low leak rate means less awakening for me and my spouse at odd hours of the night .
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Hi fnorette,

My snoring use to rock the house. My wife is happy to deal with a little sound of air. Maybe it reminds her of the outdoors camping

Stan

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 10:57 pm

Hmmmm? wrote:
Otto Pap wrote:
Lg leak: 306 min
"Large leak" reflects a condition for which your machine may not properly compensate. Even though your data appears good at first glance, that 306 minutes of "large leak" is actually 306 minutes of potentially skewed data and therefore 306 minutes of potentially skewed treatment!
Hmmmm......would the above be true if my setting is 10 to 15 cm and the treatment remained at 10cm during treatment? Pressure didn't change all night (yes, the unit is working fine). Since pressure hadn't changed and more importantly didn't reach the max setting, I would thing that I was receiving proper treatment. Also, how would having large leaks skew treatment? My thinking is that as long as the unit is supplying enough O2 to meet the demand of the leak and to meet treatment, why should it matter.

Thanks for responding,
Stan

"Large leak" is distinguished in your data set for a very good reason. Namely because a "large leak" outstrips the machine's ability to properly compensate. The fact that you stayed at 10 cm almost the entire time demonstrates the machine's inability to properly detect and respond to sleep events.

The machine does not deliver O2, by the way. It delivers varying pressure based on varying needs. Those varying needs in all likelihood could not be properly detected in your case since the machine cannot properly sense subtle airflow variations when it is in a "large leak" state. Again, this is precisely the reason "large leak" is distinguished from "small leak" in the data set.