11-22-2017, 12:50 PM
RE: previously diagnosed, expertise requested for data interpretation
The problem with BPAP is it can make the centrals worse. I take it that your EPR is reduced to try to resolve the centrals, and a few OA are coming through, but most events are central. If so, that suggests complex apnea, and the treatment for that is ASV, which can provide enough pressure support on a breath by breath basis to cause a breath during an open airway apnea, or to increase respiratory volume during hypopnea. Bilevel without a backup rate, waits for you to spontaneously take a breath, and it follows with pressure to make it easier to breath. That works great, but anyone that develops central apnea with pressure support or EPR needs the backup function.
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