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RE: High "Clear Airway" events - zzzzk - 09-21-2012 (09-18-2012, 07:33 AM)Sleepster Wrote:(09-17-2012, 12:53 PM)archangle Wrote:(09-14-2012, 05:30 PM)Sleepster Wrote: BiPAP's induce CA apneas, so it's not surprising that EPR does too. It's probably an effect that subsides with time. Hi Sleepster, interesting, you said that people with standard OSA were automatically given a BiPAP rather than an APAP? Can you tell me why? I thought BiPAP's were only usually given with people who probably had centrals? Thank you. RE: High "Clear Airway" events - Sleepster - 09-22-2012 (09-21-2012, 01:21 PM)zzzzk Wrote: Hi Sleepster, interesting, you said that people with standard OSA were automatically given a BiPAP rather than an APAP? Can you tell me why? I don't recall saying that. People with simple OSA are given a CPAP, a BiPAP, or a APAP. When people are put on a CPAP during their sleep study and have trouble exhaling against the pressure, they will often be given a BiPAP. I spent the first couple of weeks on CPAP and then was switched to BiPAP because I had aerophagia. More sophisticated BiPAP's are prescribed for patients who have central or mixed apnea. The other thing I said was that when patients with OSA are put on a BiPAP it sometimes induces central apnea events. The same thing is true of CPAP machines, but there are some people, myself included, for whom a CPAP does not induce CSA, but a BiPAP does. I'm using the tem BiPAP to refer to bilevel machines. Respironics calls their bilevel machines BiPAP's. Respironics calls theirs VPAP's. |