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The respiration rate is not relevant information for an OSA patient, really, as I understand it. It is a carryover from the ventilators that are the bilevels' great-grandfathers, if you will, from what I've read and been told.
Patients with other respiratory issues (like obesity-hypoventilation syndrome, or something) might benefit from the information, but we plain-vanilla OSA patients don't need to bother ourselves with it, other than maybe to glance at it once in while to see if there is some sudden change that might be a hint that something rare and unrelated is amiss.
-jeff
Yes, setting up some machines requires rate information--either to set the window of opportunity for cycling to exhale pressure (Respironics BiPAP Autos are fully automatic with that, if I remember, but ResMed's VPAPs require setting up a window of opportunity for exhale) or for setting a backup rate in machines designed for that. But other than that, the RR information is not genrally used for evaluating therapy for the average OSA patient, as I understand it.
Rock Hinkle said:what about Bpap jnk? setting up the proper respiration rate could be the key to continued therapy.
j n k said:The respiration rate is not relevant information for an OSA patient, really, as I understand it. It is a carryover from the ventilators that are the bilevels' great-grandfathers, if you will, from what I've read and been told.
Patients with other respiratory issues (like obesity-hypoventilation syndrome, or something) might benefit from the information, but we plain-vanilla OSA patients don't need to bother ourselves with it, other than maybe to glance at it once in while to see if there is some sudden change that might be a hint that something rare and unrelated is amiss.
-jeff
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