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Adding a bit in after Sleeprider's comment. Staying out of the way, that's why you don't take the chart literal and say my I:E is this. If you'd do that, the Ti Min & Max are in the way. You'd artificially close the spontaneous breath window.
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(02-16-2021, 11:33 AM)Sleeprider Wrote: 0.3 to 2.0 are default settings and seem to match your respiration pretty well. Increasing Ti Min is done mostly when an individual fails to maintain inspiration after it has started, and a shorter Ti Max is often set when a person has COPD or needs more time reserved for expiration, so the short time cycles the patient to expiration sooner. You seem to have no problems with spontaneous respiration with appropriate timing, so the default settings mostly just stay out of the way of that.
(02-16-2021, 11:38 AM)SarcasticDave94 Wrote: Adding a bit in after Sleeprider's comment. Staying out of the way, that's why you don't take the chart literal and say my I:E is this. If you'd do that, the Ti Min & Max are in the way. You'd artificially close the spontaneous breath window.
There's an unwritten rule that Apnea treatment requires trial and error, so much so that it needs to include lots of error that makes it a trial. So more or less you're par for the course as it were. You're still fairly new to PAP and it takes a while to reprogram yourself for a new normal. No of course normal didn't include an alien mask blowing on your face and its hose tail. But that's what our Apnea normal becomes.
INFORMATION ON APNEA BOARD FORUMS OR ON APNEABOARD.COM SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED MEDICAL ADVICE. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF A PHYSICIAN BEFORE SEEKING TREATMENT FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING SLEEP APNEA. INFORMATION POSTED ON THE APNEA BOARD WEBSITE AND FORUMS ARE PERSONAL OPINION ONLY AND NOT NECESSARILY A STATEMENT OF FACT.
INFORMATION ON APNEA BOARD FORUMS OR ON APNEABOARD.COM SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED MEDICAL ADVICE. ALWAYS SEEK THE ADVICE OF A PHYSICIAN BEFORE SEEKING TREATMENT FOR MEDICAL CONDITIONS, INCLUDING SLEEP APNEA. INFORMATION POSTED ON THE APNEA BOARD WEBSITE AND FORUMS ARE PERSONAL OPINION ONLY AND NOT NECESSARILY A STATEMENT OF FACT.
Let's increase the maximum pressure from 11.4 to 14.0. Your apnea are all obstructive and look like they are positional, but higher EPAP pressure is the answer to obstructive events like this.
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