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Diagnosed with Central Sleep Apnea (CSA)? How's therapy going?

Sleep Health | Last Active: Mar 18, 2023 | Replies (22)
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So the second graph down is "Patient Triggered Breaths" , a detail of my last night breathing pattern while on ASV therapy. As you can see the machine intervened about 1,400 times to compensate for missing breaths and break up any upcoming CSA event, a core feature of ASV therapy. A normal CPAP does not do that.
This is the answer to your question as to why a ASV machine was prescribed and not a normal BiPAP/CPAP machine.
A ASV monitors every breath and acts like a ventilator on standby.

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John, Volunteer Mentor | @johnbishop | Jan 7, 2022

@cyrusmanz Thank you for the explanation and details. Impressive what Sleepyhead data shows. I used it when I had my Dreamstation and Dreamstation Go but am not able to use it with my ResMed AirMini as it doesn't have an SD card or anyway to download the data by a patient as far as I know. The Sleepyhead data I have from the last time I downloaded it from April 2020 doesn't list the Timed Breath details but it may be my setup unless maybe it's only shown in an ASV machine.

There is an older discussion I started on using Sleepyhead but I'm not sure how many folks use it and try to understand all of the data. You might be able to help other members understand and learn more about the program with your understanding and familiarity with the software.

Want to see all the data stored on your CPAP machine's SD Card?: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/want-to-see-all-the-data-stored-on-your-cpap-machines-sd-card/

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