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Height of CPAP machine
How high does the CPAP machine need to be? I keep mine on a box about five inches high on the floor, below my bed. It would be more convenient to keep it on my bedside table which is the same height as my bed. I have no trouble with rainout or water in the mask. The tubing would make a loop downward (like a drip loop for an aquarium).
Thanks,
Mary Z.
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Permalink Reply by Rock Conner RRT on
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They are dude, thanks. I'm in a lab as I type this with my patient tucked in & snoozing. Me likee.
Rock C.
Rock Hinkle said:Welcome back Rock. It is great to see you posting again. I hope things are going well for you.
Rock Conner RRT said:Manufacturers recommend maintaining CPAP at or below bed level because back in the old days when flow generators first became small enough to be placed on furniture, a number of users placed them on waterbed headboard shelves & during sleep pulled then over on to their heads.
As long as your current CPAP placement isn't causing condensation problems, carry on. I like mine on my nightstand so I don't use up so much hose coming up from the floor.
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Permalink Reply by sleepycarol on
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I think hose management is the key to keep things from taking a tumble.
If the hose is routed in such a way to make sleeping comfortable, but the hose out of the way helps a lot. There are special hose hangers, hose management systems out there. For myself, since we are using a waterbed headboard (yep a few are still out there Rock) and I have it sitting there I took two small cup hooks and placed them at intervals at the top underneath the top shelf. I then took a stretchy key keeper (or if you have a card from one of the casinos that will work) and attached it to the cup hooks. I had the materials already so didn't have any additional expense. I route my hose through the key keeper and viola it stays routed the way I want but has enough give that I can toss and turn and not have a problem.
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Permalink Reply by Charley K on
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This is how I deal with mine at home. Works great so far and is very convenient to hide it away quickly in day time. When at home, my ResMed Auto 25 with humidifier, resides inside the middle drawer of a three drawer nightstand. At night I just leave the drawer pulled out about half way. VPAP unit is at front of drawer. It is about 1 foot below my mattress. No problem with it geting pulled off since it is inside drawer, and since it is at right angle to hose routing, drawer does not get moved about either. May not work for some because of furniture arraingement, but works for me. As far as on the road, I haven't had to cross that bridge yet. cK!
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Permalink Reply by Paul Cosgrove on
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I did the same with my Respironics REMStar Auto A-Flex. It passed the drop test with flying colors! LOL I keep it on a box on the floor now, below bed height, just in case!
Robert Grace said:I realized recently what could happen when you turned to agressively over in bed and had your tubing tangled in your covers. Yes, you are right the whole cpap unit hit the hardwood floor. So resmed would be happy to know that their S-8 unit passed the consumer reports test for abusing your cpap unit. I am going to keep mine on the floor from now on.
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Permalink Reply by Kathy on
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I was keeping it beside me on night stand also and had a terrible problem with rainout. I brought this to the attention of the machine provider and they told me to put it just below the bed. I have it on a stand about 6 inches below the night stand and have not had another problem.
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Permalink Reply by Mary Z on
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Thanks to everyone for their responses. I think I'll keep mine on a box about 5 inches above the floor and 20" below the bed.
I had been keeping it inside the box which is larger than the machine, but was having trouble with the warmer plate for the humidifier not working some nights. The DME said the box could be holding heat and restricting airfolw so the heater wasn't staying on. Since I took it out of the box I haven't had that problem.
Mary Z.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Barthelemy on
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At the moment, mine is on a similar box to yours, which is a few inches lower than the bed (California King Futon directly on the floor), with no problems. Before we moved the bed, I had it on an end table that was 6-8" higher than the top of the bed...but no problems with raining there, either.
I'm keeping my CPAP set at the lowest humidification that works, and I think that's really the entire secret.
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