Advise For Another Re: How to choose a machine

I am hoping to build materials for "Sleep Apnea Class 101" and another suggested that "How to Choose a Machine" should be a chapter.

I will not need another machine for about two more years.

What I wish I could get is a brick (to eliminate the crazy "Clear Airway Sensing" pressure pulses which I find upset my breathing patters and likely fracture my sleep). To the brick I would need to add flow monitoring, and to flow monitoring event sensing with notifiction.

I guess what we need to know is how your experiance went. In my case my doctors have always contacted DME and then DME set a meeting. I was not involved other than to say "data please" to the doctor.

We also need input very much from those who were able to be involved, how they were involved, what were the results, how could it have been made better.

Thanks!

Todzo

I thought only Respironics machines did the pressure pulse thing? If true, could you switch to a ResMed machine to deal with the pulse issue?

My understanding of the term "brick" here is a machine that doesn't log any data other than perhaps compliance. (Outside of this forum 'brick' means dead, as in "I bricked my phone when the update failed", so you can imagine my first thoughts when I saw the term "brick" here in the "You got a brick" concept).

I wouldn't want that in any form ... I wouldn't have reached the success I have with xPAP today without the data to observe...

khauser wrote:I thought only Respironics machines did the pressure pulse thing? If true, could you switch to a ResMed machine to deal with the pulse issue?

My understanding of the term "brick" here is a machine that doesn't log any data other than perhaps compliance. (Outside of this forum 'brick' means dead, as in "I bricked my phone when the update failed", so you can imagine my first thoughts when I saw the term "brick" here in the "You got a brick" concept).

I wouldn't want that in any form ... I wouldn't have reached the success I have with xPAP today without the data to observe...

Hi khauser!

As I understand from reading here ResMed clear airway sensing pulses are shorter and less invasive. FWIW the recent journal Sleep has an article where they are busy defining how to detect central hypopneas - which gives me some hope that they will see better ways to do this (like look at the volume data for goodness sakes!!!). Anyway the development of these machines in the darkness of corporate secrecy needs to be stopped so we can have machines that actually work. I think the whole patent thing is very much slowing things down here. The matter needs to be looked into nationally and by the world.

If you think about your last statement then “brick” kinda does make sense in that the PAP machine had a “failed update” indeed!!!

Have a great week!

Todzo