02-24-2013, 11:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-24-2013, 11:29 AM by GaryG.)
RE: Sleepyhead Results
I figured out how to check duration with events information on the left (and I can't see a correlation between duration of CA event and the pressure). But how do I review 02 desaturations?
02-24-2013, 12:24 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-24-2013, 12:29 PM by vsheline.)
RE: Sleepyhead Results
(02-24-2013, 10:25 AM)GaryG Wrote: If I can summarize (with a few questions in blue and comments in green) (snip)
2. Look to reduce apneas with longest duration. With Resscan, the duration is visible. How do I check duration with sleepyhead?
I don't use SH, but I suppose I could zoom in on the Flow waveform during the apnea until one minute or 30 seconds filled the screen, and then observe how long I hadn't been breathing.
Quote:3. Review O2 desaturations How?
Either simply assume that the shorter an apnea lasts, the better, or, if you can afford to invest in a Pulse-Oximeter, wear it overnight occasionally. The finger-mounted Pulse-Ox type, by the way, will apply more pressure and will be more uncomfortable to wear all night than the wrist-mounted type which has a separate cup which fits on the finger.
Take care,
--- Vaughn
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02-24-2013, 01:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-24-2013, 01:30 PM by vsheline.)
RE: Sleepyhead Results
(02-24-2013, 11:14 AM)GaryG Wrote: Average pressure: (4-15) 8.4, (7-15) 9.8
95% pressure: (4-15) 10.5 (7-15) 11.7
So increasing the minimum does impact average and 95% pressure.
Changing the Min Pressure will change the average pressure at least slightly, but keep in mind that "Correlation does not prove causation."
There could have been an independent cause for most of the rise in 95 percentile pressure, such as sleep position, change in mask type or mask adjustments, or medications or diet or stress or whatever.
For example, for the night's data you posted, it would have made virtually no difference in average pressure or 95% pressure whether the Minimum Pressure had been set to 4 or 7 or 8. The pressure simply never went that low while you were sleeping. So the higher average pressure and 95% pressure were not influenced significantly by the Min Pressure setting that night. Other things must have had stronger influence that night.
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