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What do pressures mean
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RE: What do pressures mean
(02-16-2016, 01:18 PM)kaiasgram Wrote:
(02-16-2016, 12:44 PM)whmagill Wrote: OK... Your Pressure Graph is NOTHING at all like mine.
If you use EPR on your Autoset you should also have two pressure lines, one for IPAP and one for EPAP (reflecting your EPR setting of 1, 2 or 3).
Hmm... I wish there was a way to dump the settings information.

Looking on the ResMed AirSense 10 itself, it lists:
EPR -- On
EPR Type -- Full Time
EPR Level -- 3
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The pressure lines could also be a setting in SH. I don't have two lines, just the one. I found it useless to see the two lines.

EPR full time means it is on during the ramp, if you use it.

EPR level 3 means it drops 3 points when you exhale. So if your inhale is 9, your exhale is 6.
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RE: What do pressures mean
(02-16-2016, 01:18 PM)kaiasgram Wrote:
(02-16-2016, 12:44 PM)whmagill Wrote: OK... Your Pressure Graph is NOTHING at all like mine.
If you use EPR on your Autoset you should also have two pressure lines, one for IPAP and one for EPAP (reflecting your EPR setting of 1, 2 or 3).

Also, you posted your Flow Rate graph below your Pressure graph, not your Flow Limit graph like I have in mine. Check out your Flow Limit graph instead and you'll see the correlation with pressure.

I have the Autosense 10. Changes in EPR do not produce 2 lines. The single mask pressure line varies from pressure to pressure -3cm for each exhale. Yours must be set different than mine some how?
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As I recall, you only get one pressure line on SH 0.9.8, and two using the new 1.0.0-beta. The single line is your IPAP, whether or not you are using EPR.
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RE: What do pressures mean
(02-16-2016, 06:27 AM)zonk Wrote:
(02-16-2016, 06:00 AM)DeepBreathing Wrote: Just adding to what's already been said - if your machine goes to the maximum and stays there, it's an indication that your maximum might not be high enough.
More likely the case, but in my experience with the A10 AutoSet, the machine tend to respond aggressively to flow limitation (wasn't an issue for me with S9 AutoSet) and put the pressure sky high and that disrupt my beauty sleep
Its a question for me, do I want all all FL dealt with higher pressure or some FL and lower pressure
I've experienced the same thing with my PR S1 Series 50 BiPAP Auto. It has a tendency to respond quite aggressively to FL and VS's. And I've had to limit my max IPAP so that the machine does not run off and give me severe aerophagia.

Sometimes you do have to put up with a bit of FL and/or mild snoring in order to consistently get a good night's sleep.
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(03-26-2016, 04:47 PM)Ed1101 Wrote: I have the Autosense 10. Changes in EPR do not produce 2 lines. The single mask pressure line varies from pressure to pressure -3cm for each exhale. Yours must be set different than mine some how?

Hi Ed1101,

"Pressure" and "Mask Pressure" are two different graphs.

I think Pressure refers to the present IPAP target at the mask, versus Mask Pressure which I think refers to the instantaneous estimate of the pressure at the mask, based on very rapid measurements.

If using ResScan, I think the Mask Pressure waveform is called the High Rate Pressure waveform and if memory serves is the result of around 25 measurements per second, versus changes in the Pressure target occurring perhaps every couple seconds or less frequently.

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(03-26-2016, 06:25 PM)pholynyk Wrote: As I recall, you only get one pressure line on SH 0.9.8, and two using the new 1.0.0-beta. The single line is your IPAP, whether or not you are using EPR.
Where are you finding this 1.0.0-beta? Are you building it from source?

Nothing here: http://www.sleepfiles.com/SH2/
and Source Forge says "1.0.0 beta is coming soon." -- but that appears to apply to the Ubuntu Liinux version only.


Bill Magill
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"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect,
but actually — from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint —
it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff."
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(03-27-2016, 09:36 AM)whmagill Wrote: Where are you finding this 1.0.0-beta? Are you building it from source?

There was a link to it in another thread. It's an install file in .exe format. I installed it about a week ago and it's working fine so far. Did take awhile to reload my old data from the earlier version.
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(03-26-2016, 08:27 PM)vsheline Wrote:
(03-26-2016, 04:47 PM)Ed1101 Wrote: I have the Autosense 10. Changes in EPR do not produce 2 lines. The single mask pressure line varies from pressure to pressure -3cm for each exhale. Yours must be set different than mine some how?

Hi Ed1101,

"Pressure" and "Mask Pressure" are two different graphs.

I think Pressure refers to the present IPAP target at the mask, versus Mask Pressure which I think refers to the instantaneous estimate of the pressure at the mask, based on very rapid measurements.

If using ResScan, I think the Mask Pressure waveform is called the High Rate Pressure waveform and if memory serves is the result of around 25 measurements per second, versus changes in the Pressure target occurring perhaps every couple seconds or less frequently.

You are correct. My SH pressure graph only changes with certain events while the Mast Pressure graph approximately follows the pressure graph but varies with exhale rate when EPR is on. Amplitude of the variation is approximately equal to the EPR setting from 1 to 3 cm. Thanks for clarifiying my misstatement.
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