[Equipment] ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO

[Aknakon]

ResMed AirCurve 10 VAUTO: This is my new equipment since my Dr. wants the bipap options. I'm currently set at 15 inhale 12 exhale. When I was using CPAP 15 with EPR 3 my mask was being blown off my face. Does anyone else use this equipment If you do any tips that would help me?

[Crimson Nape]

The only thing I would recommend if you are having mask problems at that pressure, is to look into other masks. What mask are you using now?

[ajack]

There are mask fitting videos on youtube and bonjour has a good link in his signature on mask fit. As well as the mask fit function on the machine, that blows a higher pressure of air to test and adjust it..

[Aknakon]

The only thing I would recommend if you are having mask problems at that pressure, is to look into other masks.  What mask are you using now?

I just changed recently to the ResMed AirTouch F20 it has a memory foam.

[ajack]

I would now suggest you post some sleepyhead charts,
I would download the clinical manual from the top of the page and switch to auto mode.

edit, I messed up about the 2 epap settings. For your current script, you would have epap 12. min PS 3 and max PS could now be set at 10, which may be enough.
Put up a sleepyhead chart for help with fine tuning the pressures, the epap is normally raised if there are OA still
page 35
https://www.resmed.com/us/dam/documents/...lo_eng.pdf

[Sleeprider]

I would now suggest you post some sleepyhead charts,
I would download the clinical manual from the top of the page and switch to auto mode.
I would start with min epap 9, max epap 15
min ps 3 max ps whatever the dial turns up to, I think it would go to max ps 10 or 15
(this min 9 epap and min pS 3 will be ipap 12, so 3 under what you have now. This will let the auto function work a bit.)

Ajack, it's an Aircurve 10 Vauto...single PS setting in auto mode, so maybe EPAP min 9.0, PS 3.0, IPAP max 15.0?  Your comment seems directed toward ASV.

[ajack]

my mistake, I thought avap had a variable epap, as well as the variable PS. For some reason I thought the avap had 2 epap. So it's the same as the S and ST and has one epap setting. Thanks for setting it straight or Aknakon would have been scratching his head for a week, looking for the max epap setting. I edited the post to save confusion

[Aknakon]

So now that I have changed masks I have been closely monitoring the net results. 

Here is what I am finding: The ResScan gives a different number then SleepyHead for the exact same set of data. Using a recent date I got a sleepyhead reading of 0.13 plus 0.18 for an AHI of 0.31 however my ResScan for the same day with all factors the same gave me this: 0.2 plus 0.6 for an AHI of 0.8 

For another day I get 0.1 vs 0.5 or 0.27 vs 0.8 etc ResScan SEEMS to be the consistently higher number

Any incite ?