Unclassified apneas

[mollete]

Can you show the Leak Rate during the runs of UAs?

[mollete]

I know nothing about UAs but the math tells me that nativedancer had 42 of them during the night but less than one minute was spent in the large leak region which I assume includes 30L/min. I also assume each UA had to be at least 10 sec to be registered. That's 7 minutes. Something doesn't add up.

UAs do not have to be in LL the entire time, so perhaps there are a few blips.

[tedburnsIII]

RDI gets a pass, because RDI is essentially AHI plus an arousal index. That is helpful, more sophisticated than simple AHI, and not really much more difficult to understand. And it has a different name, as it should.

But we can't ignore these events either. I say take AHI for what it is worth (which isn't really all that much other than a general indicator),

I think you trivialize AHI when it is a very important number, though RDI predominates as the gold standard for dx and treatment.

In any event, AHI matters- a lot.