Changes

by RobySue

(edited 6/20/2014)

'''Final NOTE:''' If you find mistakes in what I've written OR if you have suggestions on cleaning up the language, please PM me instead of posting a reply. And I'll edit this post after getting the PM. That way this thread won't get cluttered with a lot of replies that make it hard for people to find the information they are looking for.

First time users of SleepyHead are sometimes confused about what they have to do when they open up Sleepy Head for the very first time.

The main point here is that if you start clicking around looking for your data, it won't be there. You still have to download (or import) the data into SleepyHead.

3) You need to remember to put the card back into your PAP machine. This is particularly true for ResMed users: All the detailed data is written directly to the SD card, and if there is no SD card, that data is lost. And SH will report that there is no data for the night. (ResScan will be able to report on the summary data that is stored in the S9's memory and then written to the card when it is inserted into the machine.

When you are first learning how to use SleepyHead, it helps to have a basic understanding of the organization of each of the data views are available in SleepyHead.<br />

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The amount of data available in SleepyHead can be overwhelming to new PAPers, particularly those who only want some reassurance that "things are working." While many newbies tend to focus on the data in the Statistics tab and the Overview tab, the data in the Daily tab is usually more useful when you are trying to analyze what's going well and what's not going so well during the CPAP adjustment period. Moreover, the Daily Detailed Data is currently more robust and less buggy than the data presented in the Statistics tab. So I would encourage new SleepyHead users to first concentrate on getting comfortable with their detailed Daily data. Even so, you want to look at the detailed Daily data in context: One bad night does not mean things are suddenly not working; a month of bad nights does indicate something is wrong.

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Long term trends in the efficacy data are important for many reasons. One of the most important is that we all have the occasional bad night where the AHI is much higher than normal or the leaks are awful. Occasional bad nights do not indicate that there's something wrong with the way the PAP therapy is going. (Well, a really awful night for leaks might indicate it's time to replace those nasal pillows or to check whether the mask was put together correctly.) Sleep docs tend to focus almost exclusively on the long term data---a small number of well understood summary numbers and graphs are easier to look at than a massive amount of daily data when you are meeting with large numbers of patients each month.

There are some bugs in the CPAP Statistics numbers. So if a number obviously does not make sense, its best to disregard the number. ResMed S9 summary data has been particularly challenging for JediMark to work with if no detailed daily data is available for some days. The summary data stored for a day with multiple sessions is not sufficient to compute the long term percentiles and averages when only the summary data is available.

When you select '''Preferences''' off the appropriate menu, a Preferences panel will come up. Regardless of whether you are using a Mac or a Windows machine, the Preferences panel will look the same. The default starting place in the Preferences panel is the '''Import''' pane.