Philips CPAP auto, 6 or 12 graphs in OSCAR.

[RickEiben]

In between machines ( going from ResMed ST to ASV ) supplied by my DME, I own and have used a 2021 Philips Respironics Auto CPAP for a total of 16 days. In going thru the graphs in OSCAR, sometimes there are 6 graphs, sometimes there are 12 - which I like much better. What's up with that?

[Gideon]

There are 6 charts we like to see for CPAPs APAPs and BiLevels without backup.
There are our "standard" charts.

For ASV and BiLevel we want to see what we call the Advanced charts.

Actually both show all the charts but with what we consider the most important toward the top..

Minute vent or Tidal volume are used by ASVs to maintain a fairly constant volume based on a moving average, ivaps maintains a targeted volume so these stat have a high level of importance, we also include mask pressure which shows response to these higher level settings and is useful in trouble shooting.

You can control the number of charts you show on a screen, this is done either by manually setting the size of each screen or globally controlling the height of the charts based on screen resolution.

This should be retained between sessions so if that is not happening you need to say what the differences are so our gurus can figure it out.

[RickEiben]

Thank you for all the useful information, very handy. I just started reading the instruction manual for the Oscar software.

What was confusing me was the readout from my Philips Respironics machine for the time period that I used it. Two or three times it gave me a full 12 graph option, which is almost identical to the ResMed, but most of the time I only had an option for only 6 graphs - and they look totally different. it’s making it hard to compare apples to apples. 

I was hoping to find out if I had obstructive sleep apnea,  central CA, or both. I’m not sure I believe what the titration studies, the sleep doctor, or the respiratory therapist are telling me.

[Gideon]

Post screenshots to demonstrate.
Each chart can be turned off by the user by $eselecting charts in one of the lower corners. By default all charts are selected.

[RickEiben]

       

These are from the same Philips auto CPAP machine. Just a few came out with the 12 graph option, and they look the same as my new ResMed machine. Most of them only came out with only a 6 graph option, which look totally different. Any idea why?

[Crimson Nape]

SD cards can go bad. Have tried using a new one to see if this problems continues?

- Red

[RickEiben]

I will put a new one in if I ever start using it again. It's from the 4 year older CPAP pro that I sent in on the recall. They sent me a newer auto CPAP but left the old card in it. Thanks again.