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[Equipment] ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
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ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
For the ResMed AirSense 10 model, the main (simple) menu has a setting for "Pressure Relief" with On, or Off choices.

In the more advanced, 'Clinical Settings' menu, there is EPR On/Off with EPR Level settings.  How do these two configuration items work together? (If at all.)  It seems if you turn EPR On/Off it doesn't affect the Pressure Relief setting.   Does "Pressure Relief" simply equate to EPR on/off?

Curious!
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RE: ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
I believe Pressure Relief and EPR are the exact same things. The clinical menu offers more choices.
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RE: ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
EPR on or off turns on or off the pressure relief.

In the advanced settings for EPR (Levels 1-3):
1 is 1 cm H2O pressure (EPAP) relief below your current pressure, 2 is 2 cm's below and 3 is 3 cm's below. 1 gives the least amount of pressure relief, 3 gives the most.

Yes, EPR is the same as Pressure Relief.
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RE: ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
Hi darianmiller,
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Good luck to you with your CPAP therapy, hang in there for more responses to your post.
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RE: ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
If EPR is the same as pressure relief then ResMed has a bug in their software. When I turn pressure relief off in the settings, the clinical settings for EPR still say ON.
Should the settings be in sync if they are the same thing?
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RE: ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
One is a patient setting the other is a clinician setting. Turning it on in the Clinician settings makes it available for the patient. As the patient, you can still toggle it on/off providing the Essentials Plus mode is also enabled.
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RE: ResMed AirSense 10 menu item: Pressure Relief vs. EPR
I recently got a ResMed AirSense 10.  (My previous machine was a Respironics System One.)

I did not care for the pressure relief feature in the Respironics.  I mentioned this to the technician when I picked up the AirSense machine.  She helpfully switched it off in the patient menu.

When I got home and tested the machine some more, it sure seemed like it was trying too hard to anticipate my breathing.  That's something I find very irritating and that I associated previously with EPR.  But we had set it to off!

I checked the clinician's menu and, huh, look at this:  EPR is "on."  Eh!?

I turned it off there and the machine definitely seemed to behaved differently.  When I went back to the patient menu, I discovered that the "Pressure Relief" menu item was nowhere to be found.

So it looks like there is 'pressure relief off, but not really (and we aren't telling you)' and then there is 'pressure relief off (REALLY!).'

Odd
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