CPAP is 30 yrs. old -- Happy Birthday!

This article appeared in Lancet, yesterday, "Colin Sullivan: inventive pioneer of sleep medicine" -- good overview of the history and new research being done using cpap.

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lance ... xt?rss=yes

I'm such a nosey ole broad - it would be interesting to know what brought about the decision for Dr Sullivan and Peter Farrell to sever their Resmed partnership. And it would be interesting to know what brought about the law suit Resmed filed against Respironics that was either settled or Resmed lost.

There were a couple of other early pioneers of PAPs and PAP therapy. I think Americans. I don't know if they had any relationship w/Respironics or not. I would not in anyway want to take away from what Dr Colin Sullivan has accomplished for us but it would be interesting to know even more about PAP therapy history for apnea.

God bless you, Dr Sullivan, and THANK YOU!

I remember several dacades ago, reading about babies being put on a 'sullivan monitor'
so their parents could wake them when they stopped breathing. I assume that Dr Sullivan had a hand in this, too.
Bless him and all those who worked with him.

An interview w/Dr Colin Sullivan: Past, Present and Future

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/article/ ... uture-cpap

... We made and provided the masks and CPAP systems in our workshop so that by 1985 we had over 100 patients on long-term home therapy. The commercial availability of a suitable system from Respironics in the United States was in 1985. ...

Will our sleep professionals ever learn????

However, there is robust evidence that the best compliance only occurs if the introduction of the patient to CPAP is done with well trained experts, and if the patient is closely followed and supported by those people ...

... There is little point in having some untrained franchise doing a portable diagnostic study and simply putting someone on CPAP using some simple protocol. Unless those people know what they are doing and support and care for the patient in the first few months, long-term compliance will be poor. ...