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kneemeister wrote:I'm a Biomedical Equipment Technician at a hospital in Ohio, we have BiPap Vision machines, that must be the new and improved model, it looks to be about half the size.

Several years back, I got to visit the Respironics factory for a class to service the Vision. Little did I realize then that not only would I get to work on them, I would end up using the descendent's of the M-series machines then coming off the line.

I somehow missed this post!!

I started out on an M-Series cpap, went to a System One bipap, then straight to the Trilogy. This journey book 2 and a half months total to get from cpap to ventilator. This is the ventilator my DME gets so it's what was provided for me. In truth, I don't know much about ventilators in general, but this one seems to have a lot of bells and whistles.

rested gal wrote:Right side was cut off when I first looked at the pics in this thread. Then I used Ctrl while turning my mouse wheel to make the cpaptalk webpage "font" smaller and smaller. The entire picture showed up then.

I always keep the font pretty large. I often have to adjust it back down temporarily via Ctrl+mouse wheel when any posted picture looks like the right side is missing.

Of course, I knew that!!

Somehow I had always thought of a ventilator being a huge machine on a wheeled stand. Had no idea they were so portable.

rested gal wrote:Right side was cut off when I first looked at the pics in this thread. Then I used Ctrl while turning my mouse wheel to make the cpaptalk webpage "font" smaller and smaller. The entire picture showed up then.

I always keep the font pretty large. I often have to adjust it back down temporarily via Ctrl+mouse wheel when any posted picture looks like the right side is missing.

DoriC wrote:Of course, I knew that!!

I didn't know that. I tried it and it worked. Thanks RG!

Bones wrote:Somehow I had always thought of a ventilator being a huge machine on a wheeled stand. Had no idea they were so portable.

I think this illustrates a new generation of home ventilators that are designed to be portable. If needed down the road, I could attach this to my powerchair (with chair modifications) and go out and about using the batteries. This has two batteries, each lasting about 3 hours.

If I WANTED to use the vent during my recliner naps, it would be easy to pick it up and move it (for someone that can lift it, which isn't me).

I am very lucky that I have a DME that has fairly new and modern equipment available.

Bones wrote:

rested gal wrote:Right side was cut off when I first looked at the pics in this thread. Then I used Ctrl while turning my mouse wheel to make the cpaptalk webpage "font" smaller and smaller. The entire picture showed up then.

I always keep the font pretty large. I often have to adjust it back down temporarily via Ctrl+mouse wheel when any posted picture looks like the right side is missing.

DoriC wrote:Of course, I knew that!!

I didn't know that. I tried it and it worked. Thanks RG!

I tried this too and it didn't work for me! But, I have the original pictures, plus see this stuff every night, so I'm good. I just felt bad that it was showing up like that for the rest of you!

Bones wrote:

rested gal wrote:Right side was cut off when I first looked at the pics in this thread. Then I used Ctrl while turning my mouse wheel to make the cpaptalk webpage "font" smaller and smaller. The entire picture showed up then.

I always keep the font pretty large. I often have to adjust it back down temporarily via Ctrl+mouse wheel when any posted picture looks like the right side is missing.

DoriC wrote:Of course, I knew that!!

I didn't know that. I tried it and it worked. Thanks RG!

It's called "wheel wingin' ." Titrating the page to a readable size.

Similar to the CPAP dial wingin' we're so familiar with here.

HoseCrusher wrote: On my display those numbers are not being cut off. The cut off I see is the last part of the measurement. For example for your leak rate I see 38 l/ and then half of the m is cut off.

See the zoom in / zoom out number at the bottom right of the screen.
Mine was set at 100% & it was cutting off part of the right side.
I set it to 75% and now I can see the entire screen without any part of the screen being cut off.

So, if someone is seeing a cut off screen, reduce that zoom to less than what you have it now, until you can see the entire screen. It does make the text a tad smaller also, but at 75%, it is still very readable.

It works, Of course I knew that too!

Bones wrote:Somehow I had always thought of a ventilator being a huge machine on a wheeled stand. Had no idea they were so portable.

Full Hospital vents; the ones they use for intubation, are just slightly bigger now days, most of the size is taken up by making room on the cart for a compressor, and a larger display. The size of vents was a function of the older generation of electronics, not the pneumatics. In fact, we have simple air driven vents that fit in a small tackle box, early mechanical vents were actually the size of a modern infusion pump. The early electromechanical vents were very large on the other-hand, with a separate knob to adjust every parameter.
BiPap Vision

Puritan Bennett 840 Ventilator

Auto Vent (tackle box vent)

Well, not for nothin', but but BiPAP Vision and Trilogy 100 are like so ago, and are being replaced by

Focus

and

Trilogy 202

respectively.

NotMuffy wrote:Well, not for nothin', but but BiPAP Vision and Trilogy 100 are like so ago, and are being replaced by

Focus

and

Trilogy 202

respectively.

Where does the LTV1000 fit in to all of this? This is the vent I would be using if I elect to do a study at my normal facility...

I know the Visions are getting long in the tooth, but they are good workhorses. As a small hospital ours don't get allot of hours, so still look and work like new.
thanks for the links by the way.

jnk wrote:To see the entire shot, all I had to do was to right click and save the URL of the link and then go to the original.

I did the same thing. I'm jealous I want one of these machines also. What a great looking toy.

As "She Who Must be Obeyed" say's ; "the difference between men and boy's is the price of their toy's, among other things "

Patrick A wrote:

jnk wrote:To see the entire shot, all I had to do was to right click and save the URL of the link and then go to the original.

I did the same thing. I'm jealous I want one of these machines also. What a great looking toy.

As "She Who Must be Obeyed" say's ; "the difference between men and boy's is the price of their toy's, among other things "

LOL -- Just keep in mind that you don't buy this thing like you do cpaps and bipaps -- this is a permanent rental and it comes at a hefty monthly cost. I don't know what other option we might have had, but do know I failed on bipap and this is what the DME suggested, my doctor agreed AND my insurance reimburses better monthly than they did for each of my sleep studies.

I do realize that this piece of equipment can handle whatever my disease throws at it, but it comes with a hefty price tag, both in money and lack of experienced RT's to help set it up. Thank goodness my DME stepped up and got the RT we have now working with us as he does know this ventilator very, very well. But even he admitted he's learned a few things about it from me and my usage of it.