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Permalink Reply by Rooster on March 14, 2011 at 9:44am

This is not the answer you are expecting, but do you have the ResScan software so you can look at the daily details graphs? Looking at the timelines of the night in the daily details report is the only way I can have a good understanding of what is going on with my therapy and my breathing.

 

What you have listed above is summary information and I find summary information to be inadequate at best and misleading at worst.

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Permalink Reply by Tom Cannon on March 14, 2011 at 10:21am

Hi Rooster

 

Unfortunately the BiPap is a ResMed VPAP S and the only way to get data from it is via the LCD readouts. I don't know if a complete clinical manual would give me all the explanation needed because ResMed will not permit users to have clinical manuals which makes NO SENSE WHAT-SO-EVER.

 

None the less thank you for your reply.

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Permalink Reply by Rooster on March 14, 2011 at 10:28am

http://www.sleepguide.com/profiles/blogs/resmed-resscan-definitions

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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on March 14, 2011 at 10:30am

Leaks- the amount of leakage for mouth, mask, or tubing.

VT- also known as Tidal Volume- the volume of air displaced during inspirations that you took over the night.

MV-(Wikipedia)

Respiratory minute volume (or minute ventilation, or flow of gas) is the volume of air inhaled (inhaled minute volume) or exhaled (exhaled minute volume) from a person's lungs in one minute. This is normally registered when a person has a ventilator supporting the person's breathing due to a sickness or injury.

Minute volume is calculated by taking the tidal volume and multiplying it by the respiratory rate (the number of breaths per minute a person is taking). The higher the minute volume the more carbon dioxide (CO₂) the person is releasing, the converse is the lower the minute volume the lower the amount of carbon dioxide the person is releasing.^{[citation needed]}

A normal minute volume while resting is about 5–8 liters per minute in humans.^{[citation needed]} Hyperventilation is the term for having a minute ventilation higher than physiologically appropriate.

AHI the average of apneic events and hypoxic events per hour over the night.  Apnea is a complete cessation of breathing for 10 or more seconds.  Hypoxia is a 50% decrease in airflow for less than 10 seconds. AHI minus AHI gives you your hypoxia index- should be below 5. Your numbers are good.

Spontaneous T, Spontaneous C- Spontaneous triggered or cycled breaths- can;t explain.

Rise Time-The Rise Time feature on the BiPAP Pro establishes the time that the device takes to change from EPAP to IPAP. This setting can be adjusted, giving you greater flexibility.

The amount of time it takes the BiPAP machine to change from your exhalation pressure to your inhalation pressure is the rise time.

Ti Max- I believe it is the time for duration of inspiration. Should be set by dividing 60 by respiratory rate.

Trigger and cycle-comfort settings for effort required to cycle the machine from inspriration

to expiration

Trigger and cycle,  Spontaneous T and C I really don't understand 

 

Hopefully one of the professionals will weigh in and correct me, or elaborate where necessary.

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