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S9 VPAP adapt curious results. Am I alone?
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03-16-2017, 08:46 PM
RE: S9 VPAP adapt curious results. Am I alone?
Are these the same settings you've used on all your machines? I ask because the minimum PS seems a bit high and might be causing the abrupt pressure change you mentioned. And of course you need to keep consistent settings to have a meaningful comparison between machines.
03-17-2017, 09:39 AM
RE: S9 VPAP adapt curious results. Am I alone?
(03-16-2017, 08:42 PM)Ikabodkrane Wrote:(03-16-2017, 01:41 PM)Sleeprider Wrote: If you would go thorough your clinical settings and document the settings, it would help in setting up other machines. Mode, EPAP min, IPAP max, PS min, PS max and any other relevant settings. I think you are so accustomed to a minimum PS of 6 and that is probably what was different in the other machine setups. That high minimum PS almost doesn't allow for spontaneous breathing, and does most of the respiratory effort for you on each breath. You still have to spontaneously trigger a breath, but the backup rate may be kicking in pretty fast for you depending on the respiratory rate; still you're running that unit nearly as a full time ventilator. If you try an Aircurve 10, note you are not using ASVauto mode, and will .need to setup the min PS max PS the same
Sleeprider
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