RE: What do these mean
Unfortunately you took screen shots of 1 event. You will need to reopen SH. Go to the Daily tab and make sure the Event Flags graph is open to the whole sleep night. It should be bright and not grayed out as yours is. Then take your screenshots.
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RE: What do these mean
Hi sonic boom
i don't understand. The images are for an 8 hr period- is this one event?
RE: What do these mean
First, all your images are extremely zoomed in and it's a little difficult to know what you are trying to show with that very confined time. You appear to be using a Philips Respironics Dreamstation with default (wide open) settings of 4-20 which are completely missing the mark. It would be helpful if your screenshots would show the full night of pressure changes so we can see how all these events line up with the pressures.
One thing is obvious, your pressure of 4-20 needs to be changed to about 12-20 to even come close to your needs.
RE: What do these mean
Your minimum pressure is too low to tackle your apnea. As stated above, it should be raised to 12cm, and possibly may need to be higher.
If you look at your graph, you can see that you experienced a lot of RERA's during ramp. If you are going to use the ramp feature, it will need to be raised to keep pace with the minimum pressure.
Start ramp at 8cm.
Good job on the graphs, but still need to get rid of the pie chart. Under preferences, click on appearance and uncheck the pie chart.
Leaks aren't bad either. I only see one large leak in early morning.
Raising the minimum pressure will help eliminate or improve the Hypopneas, Snores, RERA's and Flow Limitations.
RE: What do these mean
Johnboy - OpalR explained the problem with your screenshot. Good job on the last one. Let us know how you do with the suggested changes of pressure. Welcome to the hose head world!
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RE: What do these mean
Thanks everyone. If you don't mind i will post tomorrow with increased pressures to see it's going.