- Good day mates,
today we are talking about ResMed's climate control.
What the hell is it?
How does it work?
And how do you adjust it to make your CPAP therapy
more comfortable.
All right, let's jump in.
Now, in order to access climate control
on your air sense 10, or air sense 11 device
you will need one of these bad boys.
It's a ResMed climate line, heated tube.
And if you don't have a heated tube
or then you won't have access
to climate control on your menu system.
So if you wanna pick one up
check out the links in the description
of the video down below, but this heated tube
it has a heated element that runs the length of the tube
but it also has at the mask end, a little sensor
and this sensor monitors the air temperature
inside the tube, but also the humidity
how much water vapor is in that air.
So it's a very smart tube system.
Now, before we begin, I wanna show you one thing currently
on my device here, my air senses, 10 auto set, brand new.
I have no tube attached.
And when I go into the, my options, you will see
I can scroll down.
It has humidity level, even with no heated tube
I still have access to humidity, which is great.
But watch what happens now,
when I plug in my climate line tube
and I'm gonna attempt this one handed reminds me
of my teenage years, trying to unclip a bras strap.
Got it.
It's in, the tube's in, the tube's in.
Now you can see the menu system has changed.
Look what else we've got now we've got here climate control
and we've also got tube temp.
Fantastic, so what is ResMed referring
to when they mention climate control?
What are they talking about?
Well, it's two things.
The first one is humidity.
How much water vapor is in the air.
And this is important because adding humidity
to the air is gonna help alleviate dryness, dry nose
dry throat, dry mouth caused by the therapy and also
congestion shrinking of the nasal passages
making it harder to breathe.
So when we add that moisture content, it's gonna
help alleviate those common side effects.
And the second thing is the air temperature.
That's the climate line tube system.
We can adjust the temperature of the air and we'll go
through this in a minute.
So let's dive into some of these settings and we'll talk
about it, starting with the climate control mode.
So you can see here, if I click this in
we can run the climate control in two modes, a manual mode
and an automatic mode.
And it's really important that
you understand the differences
between those two modes, because there is a big
big difference in how it adjusts the climate.
And we'll start with the automatic mode.
Now, imagine that most of you watching this
will have your machine set
up like mine with both your climate control
and your tube temp set to automatic.
And I imagine that's
because you don't fully understand how it works.
And there's something very attractive about that word
automatic isn't there means we don't really
have to think about it.
The machine will automatically just do its job
and hopefully everything will turn out okay.
But that's not always the case.
All right, what happens if you've got these two set to auto
but you're still dry in the mouth.
How can you get more humidity to alleviate that dryness?
Or what if it's the middle of summer?
And you're finding that the air temperature too hot on auto
how can you change it?
And then what effect does that have on the humidity level?
These are things to consider, and that's why
I wanna really educate you on this climate control.
So you know what it's doing, and then also how to adjust it
to suit your needs as the seasons change
whatever works for you guys.
All right, okay.
So here's what you need to understand when
you set your climate control to automatic
the heated humidifier is going to automatically
adjust the level of humidity.
That is the amount of water vapor in the air, higher
or lower, depending on the air temperature inside the tube.
That's the important part.
It's dependent on the air temperature, the warmer
the air temperature inside the tube, the more humidity
will automatically be added to that air temperature
the lower the air temperature, the less humidity
will automatically be added.
That's what it's doing.
ResMed is aiming for an 85% relative humidity
to whatever the air temperature is at that point in time.
And warmer air can hold more moisture than colder air.
Think about stepping off a plane when you're
when you're visiting the tropics
you get hit by that high humidity.
And why is it so high?
It's cuz the air temperature's hot.
It can hold that water vapor, how it all works.
ResMed's just copied meteorologists.
All right.
So that's how it works.
Now. I know what you're thinking
but the tube temp is also automatic.
Does that mean the tube temperature is gonna fluctuate
automatically through the night to suit the humidity level?
No, when we set our tube temp to automatic
what the device is doing is it's gonna try
and stop the air temperature
inside the tube from falling below a set level.
And that set level when automatic, is 27 degrees Celsius,
or 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now, if the temperatures above that, just in your room temp
then it's not gonna magically come down.
It's not a reverse cycle air conditioner.
Although that would be amazing.
There's a tip, ResMed, reverse cycle air conditioning,
in your CPAP machine.
That'd be pretty sweet.
No, it'll it'll stay where it is.
However, if the temperature
in the night drops below that level
let's just say five o'clock in the morning.
Cools down, goes to 22 degrees.
Then the heater coil that runs
through that heater element runs through the tube will heat
up the air back up to try and keep it above.
Or around that 27 degrees Celsius, 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
Keep it nice and stable.
So the, the word automatic there is a little bit misleading.
So here's how we can adjust it.
Now, if you wake up in the morning and you are still dry
in the throat, well, how are you gonna get more humidity?
If the climate controls on auto?
Well, we need to increase the temperature of the air.
That's how we can do it.
So we scroll down to our tube temp.
Now it's on auto, but we know auto is 27 degrees Celsius
80 degrees Fahrenheit.
So if I rotate down, you can see here, oh, there you go.
So I can bring it up to 28, 29 30.
I can bring it up further.
And that will add automatically more moisture to the air.
Now the ResMed devices are even smarter than that.
They're they're really monitoring more
than just the air temp inside the tube.
They're monitoring the atmospheric humidity.
They're monitoring leak rates, mouth leak
a whole bunch of stuff.
But the main, the main thing there is the tube temp.
So increase that tube temp,
if you want more humidity
if you are finding the air temp too hot
and you're like, no, I wanna bring down this humidification.
I mean the tube temp, that's fine.
If you wanna bring down the tube temperature
but you need to remember that if you are lowering
that tube temperature, you are automatically
lowering the humidification at the same time.
Okay, that's how it all works.
So just keep that in mind.
Some of you go, oh geez, this air is a bit warm.
I'm gonna turn that tube temp down
but keep my climate control on automatic.
Yeah, you can do that.
No problem.
But you are automatically as a result
bringing down the level of humidification.
I know it's a little bit confusing
but just remember the warmer the air
the more moisture will automatically be added to that air
the lower, the air temp automatically less moisture.
Got it?
It's tricky.
It's very tricky.
I don't blame you if you don't understand it.
It took me a while to get my head around it as well.
And I think most sleep techs probably still
don't understand it, which is why 99%
of them just tell their patients.
Yeah, just, just set it on automatic
and she'll be right mate.
Okay, so that's the automatic.
Now we're gonna talk about manual
and there's a big difference with manual.
So let's change it to manual.
All right.
Now when I turned it to manual, you can see now
I have here the humidity level that wasn't there
before was it, we just had climate control auto
because it was automatically adjusting a humidity level.
Now I have an option to change the humidity level myself
and I can run it between zero, which is completely off
or right up to eight, which is maximum humidity.
Now in manual, the tube air temp
and the humidity level are no longer in sync.
They are completely independent of each other.
Remember before we changed the air temp
the humidity follows.
Now this isn't the case.
We have complete control over both of them as I'm going up
from zero, one, two, each level of humidity corresponds
with a set determined level of moisture added to the air
independent of the air temperature.
Okay, independence.
That's what it's about when it's manual.
So I might set the humidity level at four
and then I can also set the tube temp
to whatever I like as well.
Now let's quickly run through a scenario where
using manual mode might be more beneficial
than automatic mode.
And give us a bit more flexibility.
Now let's just say it's the middle
of winter and we want nice warm air.
However, we don't like humidity.
We don't like that thick moist air.
When we're in automatic
we cannot increase the tube temperature without
it automatically adjusting the humidity upwards as well.
But in manual mode, I can set my tube temp nice
and high right up at 30 to really take the edge off that
that cool air in winter.
Especially if you're somewhere, that's got a really cold.
If you're living in an Antarctica or Russia or you know
New York even, I guess.
I imagine that gets pretty cold in winter
but then you can come down here to humidity and
you can now reduce the humidity.
We can bring that down.
We could have it completely off if we want.
So there's no moisture in the air, super dry, warm air.
Okay, that's a little scenario where you can use it.
So it does give you that ability to
decouple your humidity level and your tube temp.
So you can play around with those two values independently.
Alrighty?
And that's pretty much it
it is super confusing, but the take-home message is this
with ResMed's climate control feature
we can adjust the air temperature and also the humidity
how much water vapor is in the air.
And we can do this
in an automatic way where both the air temperature
inside the tube and the humidity level are synced together.
And the warmer the air, the more moisture is added
by the humidity automatically,
the cooler the air, the less moisture is added
automatically, or we can do it
in a manual mode where both the air temperature
and the humidity are now independent.
They're decoupled from each other.
And we can change the air temperature independently
of the humidity.
We can have our air temp nice and high
and our humidity really low
which we couldn't do in the automatic mode.
And we can change these settings to now suit our needs.
And what are, what are these needs?
Why do we wanna change them?
Well, the most common one is dryness.
That's what it's designed for.
If you are dry, what do you need?
More humidity.
If you're congested, if you get a stuffy nose
and you find it hard to breathe through your nose
what do you need?
Heat and humidity.
We want moisture added humidity is a blessing
but it can also be a curse
especially if we're getting a lot of condensation.
If we're just finding that we're getting a lot
of moisture on our face
water in the tube, rain out, that sort of thing.
Well, what do we want then?
We want less moisture or we need more heat in the tube.
I have done a few videos on it, guys.
I'll put some least in the description.
If you wanna check out some more videos
more in depth videos, but this one was really
just to educate you on climate control.
So you understand it.
And then once you understand something
it's much easier to put it
into practice and now that's on your shoulders.
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