- Alright everyone, Nikki from super cheap CPAP
and today I'm going to be doing a little video
on how to change some of the settings with
the Fisher and Paykel icon. This is actually
what we call an icon plus, which is their second
generation icon. But if you've got an icon,
you can also follow along, because it's pretty
much the same when it comes to the menu.
Alright, so on the screen currently,
we don't have a whole lot of information,
it just says Fisher and Paykel.
And with this machine, we've actually got
what we call a button and more of a click
More of a click wheel. So the button
in the middle is you can press in and out.
Okay,(clicking the button) in and out see that
and the wheel on the outside, you can actually
turn around,(turning the wheel) okay, so it's
a nifty kind of little interface. It's nice
and it feels really nice. okay to use.
It's nice and easy to turn and
the buttons also nice and easy to press.
So what we're going to look at
First is how to change the humidification settings
because this is one of the more important things,
and this one here is pretty basic. What we're
going to do is we're just going to grab this
quick wheel sort of thing. It's 10 wheel
and just turn it, one to the right.
And you'll see there, there's a little thermostat
and a number four. This actual machine
has 21 levels of humidification.
Right, it's a lot of levels, the higher you go,
the more moisture is going to be in the air.
So what I'm going to show you is at the moment,
this says number four, all right,
and if I click this button in,
you can see it starts flashing, and I
can actually change this by turning the wheel.
I can go right down to zero which is off
or right up to seven which is maximum.
Now, what I can also do is if I press
and hold this button in again (pressing button in)
Sorry it's not there. I'm just going to
lock in a number here say 5. If I press
and hold this button in now (pressing button in)
you can see it's flashing number two.
All right, so think of this as at the moment
where 2.5, I can go back to one, and now
I'm at 1.5, which is a lower level of humidification.
So what you can do is you can,
if you're finding that you're,
you know, most people will be happy.
More than happy in the level two categories.
So it will be level 2.5, or 2.4, level 2.3, and so on.
But if you're finding that, you know,
you get to seven and you're still drying a throat,
you might just want to get to seven.
And then, click in hold it (pressing button in)
go up to level three, click it and now
you want to start at level 3.1. And then
work your way out each night two and so on
until you're satisfied that you've got enough,
you know enough moisture in the air to keep you
nice and lubricated throughout the night.
If you're finding that there's too much moisture
in the air, you're getting a lot of condensation
a lot water buildup in the tubing mask,
then you might want to try bringing that down
a little bit. Okay, so you can bring that down
to level one. (pressing button in) That's fine.
So now we're at 1.2. So that's a little bit tricky.
That one, I think most of you will find that
you'd be quite happy on level two.
So you can just play around in the two point
between 2.1 2.7 but be aware that you can
go up to three 3.1 3.2 right to 3.7 if you
need it, and you can also drop it back down
so 21 levels of humidification. So that's nice
and easy to do. And once we've once we've changed it,
we don't need to save it or anything like
that once it's saved, okay, it'll just say by itself.
Alright, so the next one We go along here,
this is, if you want an alarm on
so you can if you go the next one,
you can actually have it. So it's an alarm.
It's up to you if you want to do this.
So I'm not really going to go into sort of alarm stuff,
it's not really, it's quite easy to figure
out yourself you've got the alarm there which you
can switch on, comes in with a tick it's on
or X if it's off. And then you've got your
alarm time there. So 3:25 you can change that.
whoever that person is, it's quite,
quite an early wake up call. And then you've
got the alarm volume, which is three so
this is the time of the the actual machine set to
okay so as we working down here
you can see on the on the side here
that as I rotate down, the different dots
get hollowed so keep going down.
That's the brightness level(turning wheel)
change the brightness. They also have it up nice
and high for this little episode. This one
is important. So just down the bottom here,
you'll see a little sort of little squiggly line
that some looks like a little graph or chart
that all your sleep data. So like most machines,
you can actually check out your sleep data
on the screen, which is pretty handy.
So in the morning, you can wake up and
if you rotate down to this one, you can actually
click this button. And it will take you through,
open up a whole new set of sort of numbers here.
And I'll take you through all different aspects
of your sleep data. So I'm just going to go through
some here with you, okay. This one here is a 30 day
it says 30 and it's got a little moon next to it.
So that's 30 days there, and the average is
7.9 hours per night. Very good usage
for this individual. Okay, if I click that button in
it changes to a seven day average, which is 8.1.
And last night was 8.3. Okay, So 30 7 and one, so
if you wanted to take your last night's data,
it was 8.3 hours, go down one more.
This here is percentage of nights over four hours.
So 90% of the last 30 days have been over four hours.
So it's very good compliance again.
I'll keep going down here.(turning wheel)
Get down to the AHI where it says AHI,
so just down at the (pointing at the monitor)
this one here, this is the most important ones.
This is how many apnea events you're having per hour
apnea hypopnea index, two is an excellent result
anything less than five is an excellent result.
If you're between five and 10, you know,
you might just need some fine tuning with
your therapy. If you're above 10 you know,
you really need to make some adjustments
to your TCPAP therapy there whether it be
increasing the TCPAP pressure Or just,
I can show you how to do that in another video.
But that's cool to be able to check, you know,
the 30 day average there is 2.0,
which is a great result. If I click it,
it gives me a seven day average, which is 0.8,
which is ridiculously good. And last night 0.6,
which is fantastic. So very low
Apnea-Hypopnea index, rotate one to the
middle there, Again, this is the lac rates again,
18 is a brilliant result. You know, you probably
want to be less than 60 with the
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You know anything more than that, and you
probably need to adjust your mask a bit.
This one here, just one more to the (pointing at the screen)
down here 4.5 90 percentile. So that's
what we call the 90th percentile pressure.
That's telling us that 90% of the night
the machine is not going well below,
not going above 4.5. So this individual
only needs a very low amount of pressure,
to control their sleep apnea, the machine can
go up to 20. So 4.5 is quite low. But this
is a really good number to know because it
just gives you an idea of what the machine is
doing, you know where it's below 90% of the night.
And it gives you an idea, especially if
you want to change what we call fixed pressure therapy,
or CPAP therapy, continuous positive airway pressure,
fixed at one set level, we can fix it around
this sort of level, maybe 4.5 or five,
and we know that that's going to be able
to control 90% of our sleep apnea.
Which is a good, which is a good amount,
obviously 100% brilliant, but if we're getting
90% of it, you know the body is going to be
getting a good night's sleep and it's going
to be enough to make us feel quite good in the morning.
And then we've got what we call a sensor awake,
which is the last one that's how many times
an hour the machines picking up that you're
waking up through the night. Okay, and
this person is zero. so excellent results
coming through on this particular one.
So this is just a few of the ones there
I missed out on the one you don't really
need to worry about the key this one here,
this is how many nights it has been used 229
You don't need to worry about those ones there.
But that just gives you an idea. So you can
check out your own sleep data and have
a look at some of your averages
and this give you an idea as to how
your therapy is going. So I'm just going
to rotate the dial right back up to the back
right up to the top 12 o'clock and
click the button to get out of that one now
which is take me back to the home
so the screen with the home ones there.
I'm going to go on further. So this is sensor awake,
right there to six o'clock mark it says
sensor awake and that's it. If you click it
you can either have it off or on
and we will turn it on. Okay, now sensor awake
basically monitors you throughout the night.
And if you're using an automatic machine
or a fixed pressure machine, if the machine
determines that you've woken up
you will drop the pressure by a set amount
to help you get back to sleep okay.
So really nifty feature sensor awake
and something that makes these machines very cool
and then the last one is like a setting
and comes up with like a little spanner there.
So I will click on that there, we can
turn airplane mode on or off. So if we're going
on a flight, we can pick that turn that on.
Now that just means that the machine uses
less power so you can use it with batteries
and things like that alright. So you want that off
it cuts out power to the humidifier and the heated tube.
So if we're using it at home, we want
airplane Mode definitely off. And then
if I just rotate one here you can see what I'm doing there.
It says four centimeters HPA centimeters H2O with a tick.
That's what the actual screen is going to show.
When it's in use. So if we turn that off,
it's going to show the time we turn that on
it will show the pressure so if you want to
use this as a clock, you switch that off
and have the clock on if you want to see
what pressure machines doing, you can
Turn the pressure on there. So keep the pressure on.
So I'm just going to rotate back now
all the way up to the top, back (clicking on button).
And now we're back to the start.
So now to turn the machine on,
get the therapy coming through we checked out
all our sittings there, everything looks great,
we just hit the button there the machine will
start spinning around. And this is quite close.
So you get an idea of the sound of this machine now.
So that machines running at the moment.
And you can see that it's running at
four centimeters, which is the base level,
the lower limit of this automatic machine.
Okay, so I hope you've enjoyed that.
It's a very simple tutorial, just on the basic settings.
The next tutorial we do is going to be
on clinical settings so you can get in there
and change things like this therapy modes,
that between automatic and CPAP,
you can change things like pressures, RAM features
and other things like that. So please
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Cheers bye (pushing button)