First report from ResScan

Ok . . . you guys were right. Purchasing the software and card reader was a good step. Now I need help with the reports.



If I'm reading this right, the events portion indicates that I had 7 apneas during the night with them lasting from 10-11 seconds. I also had multiple hypopneas during the night. I'm not sure what to think of the pressure information.



What about this portion of the report?

Do you guys see anything I need to be worried about?

Leak rate graph??

The pressure graph shows the initial setting and then shows what you get averaged because of using EPR. That is why you see the 2 lines.

Overall AHI numbers??

How do you feel? The numbers are pretty good. With the exception of that little grouping of apneas, you really had minimal events. Did you see a leak during that time? Maybe more events on your back? Maybe more events during REM stage sleep? Hard to say for sure but just tossing out ideas.

All in all from what you show now, not a bad night but please consider how you feel also. The best numbers in the world don't mean squat if you feel like crap. 6 hours of sleep? Is this normal for you? Bear in mind that the number of hours of sleep is also very important. For me 5 hours of "great numbers" doesn't let me feel near as good as 8 hours of "okay" numbers. In other words much more to impact how we feel than just AHI numbers.

tvmangum wrote: I'm not sure what to think of the pressure information.

Can you also post summary figures? From the graph it looks like you were at almost a constant pressure all night. What are your pressure settings? Also, would help to see leakage info. But as Pugsy mentions, the most important measurement is how are you feeling?

Here is the leak rate chart. This did surprise me a little since my machine normally shows me as having no leaks.



Tell my the summary info you want and I'll gather it tonight at home.

My pressure is set for 15 cm. Some days I feel really rested and other days I could just stay in bed. Normally I get more than 5 hours of sleep but this past weekend was different due to several other things going on at the same time.

tvmangum wrote:Here is the leak rate chart. This did surprise me a little since my machine normally shows me as having no leaks.

Your leak rate line is great. The machine will show zero leaks because it only shows an average and those small infrequent leaks weren't enough to jack up the average any. Don't worry about it.

Can't tell exactly where the average pressure line is but you probably have EPR set at 2 maybe?? If 2 then it means the machine will drop the pressure 2 cm during exhale and we exhale roughly 50% of the night. So your average pressure will be slightly less than your 15 cm. That is all that the pressure graph shows you. If the summary data shows average pressure of 13 then the EPR is 2, if average pressure is 12 then the EPR is 3...you get the idea.
If you didn't use EPR then the pressure lines on the graph would overlap because there would never be a drop to lower the average.