- [Nick] What's up guys?
Nick here again from CPAP Reviews.
Welcome to part two on our three part series
looking at the BMC Luna IQ machine,
the best machine for under 1000 dollars in the AU market.
Now part two, we're delving into the patient settings,
I'm gonna show you how to change them
and what they mean.
So when you got your machine there
the first thing you're gonna wanna do
is the press the ramp button,
this little triangle button here.
It's gonna bring three icons on the side here.
We're just gonna rotate the main knob 'til we hit the cog.
And when we hit the cog we're gonna press it down like so.
And now this enables us to go through
and change any patient settings that we might wanna change.
Now when we find something that we wanna change,
if we press it down again it changes color to yellow
and this now locks it in so we can actually rotate the dial
to change that individual setting.
When we get it to where we want it to be hit it again,
that locks in that number
and then we can move on to the next.
And we can do that right down to the bottom
where we can then go back to the home screen.
(wheel clicking continues) Like so.
All right, so we'll just get back
in that patient settings again.
Rotate to the cog,
click the wheel down.
Now, let's go through the settings one by one.
So the humidifier, up the top there,
that's gonna be how much moisture's in the air.
Now that runs between zero,
which is no moisture,
so the heat plate in here isn't heating up at all,
to five,
which is maximum,
so the heat plate's gonna get really hot,
create a lot of moisture in the air.
Now humidity's important
because if you're getting dry in the throat
'cause of all the air flow
you're gonna need a bit of humidity to relieve that dryness.
So just have a play with that,
find a level that suits you.
If you wake up one day and you're feeling a bit dry
move it up a notch.
I suggest you start on two to begin with
and the move it from there.
So if you wake up the next day and you're dry,
go up to three,
lock it in and so forth.
And you can go right up to five.
Just be aware that when you do get up
into those higher levels like five,
if you are in a really cold climate
and you're not using heated tube
then you might get some condensation or some rainout,
but you can always fix that with a heated tube.
Now coming down,
we have got the tube option that runs between 15 and 22.
Your machine will most likely come with a 22 ml hose
so you won't have to change that
but if you do go out and buy yourself
an aftermarket 15 ml SlimLine tube
then you might wanna change that.
It's no big difference,
it just means that the tube's a bit thinner
and sometimes people like it because there's not as much
tubing to move around with over the nighttime.
Coming down,
another important patient setting,
which is Reslex.
Now Reslex is what they call expiration pressure relief.
So as you are breathing out
the machine is gonna reduce the pressure
to make it easier for you to breathe against the air.
Now some people really love it,
it's a great feature,
some people not so much,
they find it throws out their breathing.
So once again,
what I suggest you do is put your mask on
and just try the different ones.
So off means no pressure relief,
one, a little bit,
two, a little bit more,
three, maximum pressure at relief.
So just try that out and see which one you like.
Probably if you're new to CPAP
you're probably gonna like it two or three
because your breathing isn't used to breathing out
against that pressure coming in,
that resistance from the machine,
'cause the machine's all producing that pressure,
you won't be used to it.
But just play around with that.
Coming down again, ramp time.
You're only gonna have to play with ramp time
if you're on fixed pressure or CPAP mode.
99.99% of you are gonna use it in automatic mode,
you're not gonna have to worry about ramp time
because the machine will just adjust by itself.
Delay, that will be either off or on.
When you turn it off it will keep going a little bit
just to run some air through the tubing
to dry it out a little bit more.
Coming down, we have the date, time, self-explanatory.
The brightness of the screen.
The mask type.
So you'll be able to change this
depending on what mask you're using.
So a full face mask,
nasal, over your nose,
pillow mask goes into your nostrils,
and then other is there's some hybrid ones
out there now as well.
So there are the three mask types,
you'll probably have either a pillows,
nasal,
or a full face mask.
Click it down.
Then we come through the iCode.
So this is your data functionality of the machine.
I recommend having iCodeQR+.
If you have a smartphone
and you're going to be using the smartphone app,
which is called BMCares.
So B-M-C-A-R-E-S,
which you can download from the apps store.
That gives you a nice little code on the screen
when you go to your data settings
and you'll be able to just open up the app,
scan that little code using the app,
and that'll bring up all the data onto your app
and you can export that as a PDF or an email,
however you like it.
If you click iCode now
it's gonna take you through to that little...
(wheel clicks)
So there's that little code that I was talking about before.
So you'll be able to scan that little box there
with your app and that'll take you through
and export all the data to your smartphone,
which is pretty cool.
So we'll just go back down where we were before.
Now it's got the use time,
about the machine,
so it's gonna give you serial numbers and so forth.
We'll go back to back.
And then I think that might be the last one.
Yeah, about machine and then back,
so now we can go back home.
That's all the patient settings there are.
So at the end of the day
that's a very intuitive menu system,
really nice, easy buttons to operate,
to turn the knob, press it down and so forth.
But that's part two, all done.
So if you have any questions
you can obviously just send us a comment in YouTube,
but I think you should be right with that.
And I'll put a link in the description of the video
on where you can pick this machine up.
Comes now with a mask,
heated tubing upgrade kit for 849 dollars,
and you can pay that off interest free as well
in four fortnightly installments using Afterpay
or on what they call the care plan.
Anyway, thanks for watching again.
Let's head over to part three now
where we're gonna look at the clinical settings,
or the more advanced settings for those of you
that wanna delve a little bit deeper.
All right, cheers.