What Trigger Setting makes an Aircurve equivalent to an Autoset?

[AmirKas]

The title says it all. I'm trying to figure out how to use my Aircurve 10 VAuto as if it were an autoset since there must be some equivalence.

[Gideon]

I'd use default settings across the board, so med trigger.
PS 3 0r less
Mode vauto
Pressures as appropriate

[SleepyMac]

Interesting question.

Even with identical pressure settings, the Aircurve does feel very different from the Airsense! I never thought to adjust the trigger and cycle sensitivities to try and fix that. I will be curious if anyone pipes in with any info!!!

If you’re aware of this, I apologize, but when you change to the aircurve, EPR vs PS is different.

EPR “comes off” the minimum pressure, where PS gets added to minimum.

So if your airsense pressures are 7-20, EPR 3, you start out at epap of 4, ipap of 7.

To duplicate on the aircurve, you would set pressure to 4-20, PS 3

A couple of your Oscar graphs will change. My inspiratory time graph in overview looked very different!

As I raised my PS to address flow limits and SPO2 questions, I saw an increase in my centrals. Adjusting the trigger setting to high took care of those, but by that time, I was getting used to the aircurve, so it’s hard to say if it was closer to how the airsense felt.

Good luck!