- G'day, everybody.
Nick here from Super Cheap CPAP
and today I'm gonna be doing a little tutorial
on the Fisher & Paykel Icon,
which is the machine here in front of me.
So it's gonna be a pretty basic, just set up guide,
so that you can pretty much plug and play.
This machine is not difficult to use,
but there are a few little things that you need to know
and I'll go through them with you now.
So this is the machine here.
It's a nice compact machine.
It's a very good looking machine.
It's also very nice and quiet and very simple to use.
The first thing we're gonna do,
is actually attach the heated tubing.
So this machine comes with what's called heated tubing.
That's tubing that has a copper coil
that runs through the inside
and that heats up and it provides a bit of protection
against what we call rain out,
which is if you're running a lot of humidification,
sometimes that can actually cause condensation,
if the weather's cold.
And the heated tubing also just tends to make the air
a little bit warmer as well.
So this is heated tubing.
It's got two ends and you can see
that one end's nice and round,
and the other one, on the other end,
has a couple of little holes.
Now the one that's perfectly round
is gonna go onto your mask
and the one that has a couple of little holes here
is gonna plug into the back of the machine.
And you'll see, if you look on yours, exactly how it goes.
It just basically pushes down, okay?
It's just pushed down where the holes go in there.
And the other end is gonna go on our mask,
which I will show you in a minute.
Now the next thing I'm gonna do,
is, you are supposed to have these machines below
the level of your bed, okay?
So you can have them on the bedside table,
but just remember that's right there next to your ear.
And it also tends to cause
a bit of a loop in the tubing, sort of.
So if you have it down, nicely beside the bed,
the tubing tends to run up and you can run it up
over the back of your bed head,
or you can also buy what they call CPAP lifts,
which are basically like a little device
that you can hang a tube over,
which are pretty cool as well, they're about 50 bucks.
But, yeah, so have it nice and low to the ground, okay?
If you can, down beside the bed,
just up off the ground is ideal.
Now the next thing we're gonna do,
is actually fill the humidification chamber up.
So that's the water chamber,
it provides the moisture in the air,
and to do so, we need to take off the lid on the top here.
And if you look down on your lid,
there's two little round circles,
and basically we just need to twist,
so that the circles line up.
Okay, so just twist it and the lid will pop off.
Now what we can do is reach in
and we can actually just pull out the tub,
here's our humidification tub.
And you can see, we can actually just put water in,
straight on the top, anywhere on the top.
And there's a little line, there's a frosted section
with a cross and a tick below.
And we just want to fill it up, just to that line,
just below the frosted section.
We want to be using distilled water if we can.
The reason being that is, normal water, tap water,
has a lot of minerals in it and you'll get end up getting
a lot of mineral deposits on the bottom.
It just gets a bit yuck.
If you can get distilled water, that's best, okay?
You can pick that up online.
You can pick them up in supermarkets.
It's not too expensive.
And that way you just keep topping up the chamber.
So we get this chamber and we face it back in.
There's a little arrow on the top, just here,
that points towards directly at the back there.
So we just place that back in and we get our lid.
(lid clangs against machine)
And with our lid, we place our lid back on, okay?
So the two big dots line up again,
and then we just rotate it around
and it sort of screws in.
Let's see if I just pass that there.
So you can sort of see that.
Right, now that we've got our water in, our tubing's on,
it's really basic now.
We just have to put our mask on.
And I've just got a little nasal mask here.
So it's just a pretty standard nasal mask.
It's what's called an Eson, very nice mask.
This is a small, my little,
quite a small nose, so I use small.
And I've just taken the clips off the side,
all right with that.
So that's the mask hanging there.
And what I'm gonna do is just grab
the back here with my left hand.
And I'm just gonna pull that over my head.
Down like so, just wiggle it on down.
Just onto my nose.
Okay?
And then I just bring the little clip underneath my ear.
Clip on.
And the other one underneath, as well.
Clip on.
And that's pretty much on now.
It's nice and centered.
It's not too tight, but tight enough
that I'm gonna get a decent seal.
If I need to make adjustments, I can make adjustments
with the Velcro at the top here, here and at the back here.
So there's a few spots where I can adjust, if I need to.
I'd do that if I was getting, what we call mask leakage.
So now I'm just gonna connect the tubing up to the mask.
So it just connects up.
And now with this one, it's really basic.
All I've gotta do to turn it on
is hit the middle silver button.
So just show you here, ready?
This button.
That's on.
So as you can see, this is super quiet,
cause that's running at the moment.
The mask is sealing well.
There's no air getting out into my eyes.
And when we've finished, what we want to do is,
just press the button to stop.
So once again, I've done this little demonstration.
I'll just press the button in the middle.
That's stopped.
I can unclip, clip.
Pull the mask off of my head.
Sorry about my mask hair.
And that's pretty much as easy as it gets, okay?
It's not too complex.
This is what we call an automatic machine.
So we don't have to be doing any ramping,
or anything like that.
We basically hit the button
and the machine will automatically adjust the therapy
to suit whatever pressure we need throughout the night.
If we stop breathing and need some pressure,
the machine will gradually build up.
If our breathing's good,
the machine will gradually come down.
So we'll end up with a variable pressure graph,
throughout the night, based on whatever our body needs.
Okay?
So it's pretty simple.
With the mask, we want to avoid frequently doing the Velcro,
because that'll wear it, wear the Velcro.
So once we've sort of set it up,
if we take it off with the clips,
when it comes to wearing it the next night,
it's pretty much where it needs to be and we can only,
we can make fine adjustments if we need to.
But we can put this mask back on and away we go again.
So stay with me, 'cause I'm just gonna show you
a few other little things now.
So that's just your basic sort of set up.
Tubing on, humidification chamber filled up, mask on,
press the play button, press the power button
and away we go.
So now I'm gonna show you a few other
little things you can do, just on the the menu itself.
So just a few more of the advanced features
that you can set up, if you want to get into
that sort of stuff as well.
But for a lot of people, they're happy
to just put the mask on
and get some therapy.
So thanks for watching the video.
It's a really basic one.
Stay tuned for number two, which will be a bit more advanced
and then probably number three,
which will be clinically advanced.
So if you really want to get into the clinical settings
and change things like the pressures and things like that.
So check out our website supercheapcpap.com.au
If you want to check out the machine,
there's plenty of videos in our blog section,
plenty of information on the website.
But yeah, thanks for watching.
Cheers, bye.