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Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - memoryNada786 - 10-11-2024
Hey guys, just need to know what my pAHIc 4% is on a % basis .... as y'all see its showing 3%, is there any way to derive 4% from my attached sleep study? B/c if that's like 25 or below I can get inspire but above it I can't according to INSPIRE rules. Can someone help derive this figure? I've asked the cpap STORE person to figure this out but haven't received a response back yet. Please help!!
RE: Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - Jay51 - 10-11-2024
Under the Respiratory Indices heading, to me, it looks like the "All Night" heading may be the percentages for each specific item. It may not be though. Total events is exactly what it says: total for the whole night.
RE: Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - SarcasticDave94 - 10-11-2024
How would an Inspire device be expected to help Central Apnea? A Central Apnea, regardless of cause, is a cessation of breath, as in breathing stops. Inspire, as I recall, is a device that will shock open your airway, however it's not going to shock a breath.
RE: Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - Phaleronic - 10-11-2024
(10-11-2024, 04:40 PM)SarcasticDave94 Wrote: How would an Inspire device be expected to help Central Apnea? A Central Apnea, regardless of cause, is a cessation of breath, as in breathing stops. Inspire, as I recall, is a device that will shock open your airway, however it's not going to shock a breath.
This is correct, the inspire device only attempts to open the airway, it cannot initiate a breath.
RE: Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - Deborah K. - 10-11-2024
If I'm reading your chart correctly I think the colorful wedge at the end of page 2 indicates you have an AHI of 74.5. I don't know a lot about Inspire, but I think they mean you can use it if your AHI is less than 25, and yours is way too high to qualify.
RE: Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - SarcasticDave94 - 10-11-2024
Yes, the wedge states 74.5 AHI. My opinion, this will be bilevel territory. If the Central Apnea are an issue, this maybe needs ASV, except the test results don't have them at 50% of the overall, from what I saw.
RE: Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - memoryNada786 - 10-13-2024
So I'm assuming P AHI c 4% can't be calculated? Because that's the number I'm after.
RE: Please interpret my Sleep Study Results for Central/Mixed Apnea at 4% desaturated lvl - memoryNada786 - 10-29-2024
Or can it be magically calculated from my attached Sleep Study??