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[Equipment] ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
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ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO: This is my new equipment since my Dr. wants the bipap options. I'm currently set at 15 inhale 12 exhale. When I was using CPAP 15 with EPR 3 my mask was being blown off my face. Does anyone else use this equipment If you do any tips that would help me?
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RE: ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
The only thing I would recommend if you are having mask problems at that pressure, is to look into other masks. What mask are you using now?
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RE: ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
There are mask fitting videos on youtube and bonjour has a good link in his signature on mask fit. As well as the mask fit function on the machine, that blows a higher pressure of air to test and adjust it..
mask fit http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...ask_Primer
For auto-cpap, from machine data or software. You can set the min pressure 1 or 2cm below 95%. Or clinicians commonly use the maximum or 95% pressure for fixed pressure CPAP, this can also be used for min pressure.
https://aasm.org/resources/practiceparam...rating.pdf
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RE: ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
(06-19-2017, 09:13 PM)Crimson Nape Wrote: The only thing I would recommend if you are having mask problems at that pressure, is to look into other masks.  What mask are you using now?

I just changed recently to the ResMed AirTouch F20 it has a memory foam.
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RE: ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
I would now suggest you post some sleepyhead charts,
I would download the clinical manual from the top of the page and switch to auto mode.

edit, I messed up about the 2 epap settings. For your current script, you would have epap 12. min PS 3 and max PS could now be set at 10, which may be enough.
Put up a sleepyhead chart for help with fine tuning the pressures, the epap is normally raised if there are OA still
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https://www.resmed.com/us/dam/documents/...lo_eng.pdf
mask fit http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...ask_Primer
For auto-cpap, from machine data or software. You can set the min pressure 1 or 2cm below 95%. Or clinicians commonly use the maximum or 95% pressure for fixed pressure CPAP, this can also be used for min pressure.
https://aasm.org/resources/practiceparam...rating.pdf
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RE: ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
(08-05-2017, 02:19 AM)ajack Wrote: I would now suggest you post some sleepyhead charts,
I would download the clinical manual from the top of the page and switch to auto mode.
I would start with min epap 9, max epap 15
min ps 3 max ps whatever the dial turns up to, I think it would go to max ps 10 or 15
(this min 9 epap and min pS 3 will be ipap 12, so 3 under what you have now. This will let the auto function work a bit.)

Ajack, it's an Aircurve 10 Vauto...single PS setting in auto mode, so maybe EPAP min 9.0, PS 3.0, IPAP max 15.0?  Your comment seems directed toward ASV.
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RE: ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
my mistake, I thought avap had a variable epap, as well as the variable PS. For some reason I thought the avap had 2 epap. So it's the same as the S and ST and has one epap setting. Thanks for setting it straight or Aknakon would have been scratching his head for a week, looking for the max epap setting. I edited the post to save confusion
mask fit http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...ask_Primer
For auto-cpap, from machine data or software. You can set the min pressure 1 or 2cm below 95%. Or clinicians commonly use the maximum or 95% pressure for fixed pressure CPAP, this can also be used for min pressure.
https://aasm.org/resources/practiceparam...rating.pdf
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RE: ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO
So now that I have changed masks I have been closely monitoring the net results. 

Here is what I am finding: The ResScan gives a different number then SleepyHead for the exact same set of data. Using a recent date I got a sleepyhead reading of 0.13 plus 0.18 for an AHI of 0.31 however my ResScan for the same day with all factors the same gave me this: 0.2 plus 0.6 for an AHI of 0.8 

For another day I get 0.1 vs 0.5 or 0.27 vs 0.8 etc ResScan SEEMS to be the consistently higher number

Any incite ?
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