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#11
RE: Any further improvement?
I too see need of higher pressure.

Any pressure guru consideration to maybe a suggestion on a higher trigger to avoid CA? It looks to me as if this is headed towards a see-saw status of Hypopnoea vs centrals complication.
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RE: Any further improvement?
Thank you both for your responses.

Here are 3 zooms of the 3 largest cluster of Clear Airway events.

Hopefully this is what you are looking for.

Regards,

Brad


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RE: Any further improvement?
I wanted to verify the CA events were not arising out of flow limitation. I mistakenly suggested settings based on an Autoset previously, and Dave jogged my memory that you use a Vauto at very low pressure and pressure support. Currently 4 to 8 with PS 2. Ther e is little doubt that you need a higher pressure, and I don't recall if we moved trigger sensitivity to high in the past, but suspect we did. Did I ever mention EERS?

Edit: I merged this new thread with your previous one. The problem is we lose the history of what has been suggested or tried. Please try to keep therapy questions in one thread.

Reviewing this thread, I have not discussed EERS (enhanced expiratory rebreathing space) and you are dealing with aerophagia at higher pressure. When you first posted, you had pressure up to 16 and PS 4. This resulted in lots of CA and aerophagia. We tried PS 2 at 4 to 9 pressure and your AHI was 2.67, and you cited good results for aerophagia. Results were variable and increased to 5.4. Your latest chart are PS 2 at 4 to 8 and AHI is up just over 7.

I think you did better at a higher pressure, and I want to go to PS 2 at 6.0 to 9.0 pressure. Read the wiki on EERS and see if you feel comfortable with trying this approach to control CA events. http://www.apneaboard.com/wiki/index.php...ace_(EERS)
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RE: First Night, Any Further Improvements?
EERS would be interesting here. Assuming it does well, this could get AHI down to about 3 or so with the numbers on this most recent OSCAR. Could be a winner.
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