- Morning, guys, Nick here again from CPAP Reviews.
Good to be with you today.
Having a look at the new ResMed F30 full face mask.
It's kind of a full face hybrid,
doesn't quite come over the bridge of the nose.
So it sits quite low on the nostrils there.
The mask itself comes with one size fits all head gear.
And you can get it with either
a small or a medium cushion, there's no large.
They say that the medium is large enough for the large.
Which I would say would probably be debatable
among some of you.
So let's have a closer look at the F30 from ResMed.
All right, so this is the F30 front on.
As we swing around here,
you can sort of see how far it sort of sits out
from the face.
This elbow section here, it's got a nice bit of pivot to it
and swings round, so nice full range of motion there.
It's also easy to pinch these clips in
to take it off and put it back in.
The elbow also has the new quiet air filter.
So that's the filter material
that runs in around the exhalation port.
So there's an exhalation port
that runs right around this circumference here
and there's filter material in there to diffuse the air.
They call that the QuietAir exhalation port design.
So that's pretty cool.
Swinging it around here.
You got your one size fits all head gear.
This is pretty standard sort of head gear from ResMed.
Quite thick, quite a nice design there.
A few places where you can obviously adjust from.
Side, side,
and on the top as well.
Magnetic clips on the bottom here.
Can you sort of see there, they snap on.
So I like that about ResMed,
there's no sort of fiddling around,
it's just the magnetic clips
sort of just grab the buckle there and away you go.
But you can see here
it obviously doesn't come over the bridge of the nose,
it sits sort of there.
So, I'll show you the components now
and we'll have a closer look.
All right, so this is the mask cushion, this is a medium.
As I said before, you can get it in a small,
but you cannot get it in a large, alright?
So you can see here, your nose sort of sits
in this little cradle section here.
It's quite firm around the outer edges
and then very soft,
very, very soft in this sort of area in here.
Same within here, it's quite soft around the edges,
but as you get sort of towards the edge,
it gets a lot firmer,
obviously that's to try and reduce mask leaks,
and then you have that firmer hard plastic here.
So putting the mask together pretty straight forward.
It just pushes in like so,
and you just give it a bit of a push and it's in place.
Obviously the elbow section,
take that off, that's your cushion section.
And then you've got your frame section there.
One frame for all.
So one frame's gonna fit your small
and your medium cushion, your magnetic clips there
and your head gear.
And that's it.
Let's go onto the reviews.
Checked out a 100 reviews on this mask,
so feedback from customers and clients like yourselves.
Average of 3.7 out of five.
So, one of the lowest results I've seen
on a ResMed full face mask in a long time.
Now from previous experiences,
these sort of hybrid full face masks,
where they sort of seal at the nostrils
have always been very polarizing.
You either get people who absolutely love them
or people who just can't make them work, all right?
And this seems to be the way with this again.
So, 3.7 out of five, over a hundred reviews.
The main negatives people were talking about
is just, they couldn't get it to seal.
And that's obviously the biggest thing for people
when it comes to buying a mask.
If the mask doesn't seal right,
it's gonna be very frustrating,
'cause you're gonna have a lot of air leaks
and it's just gonna wake you up all through the night.
So it can be as comfortable as you like.
It can be the best mask in the world,
but if it doesn't seal, then you're in trouble.
And a lot of people were finding it very, very hard
to get that right balance between
having the straps tight enough, that it was getting a seal,
but not too tight that it wasn't hurting their ears
or rubbing on their nose.
So people just having a lot of issues,
finding that right fit with this mask.
Some people were saying
that they needed larger sized cushions,
so obviously when you cut out that large cushion,
you're gonna get some people who do need a large cushion.
And a few people were saying that.
There was no size guide,
so people were saying that having no size guide available
meant that they were choosing the wrong size
when they were buying it.
Some people were buying small
when they actually needed the medium
'cause they'd do a bit of guesswork there.
Sore nose and sore upper lip.
The mask itself sort of pulling up
around that nose section there,
even though you're not getting a sore bridge,
people were saying they're getting a sore nose
and a sore upper lip from it rubbing around there.
And also dried out eyes.
Now, with the cushion sort of sitting at the nostrils
and the air sort of shooting up in the nostrils,
if it does leak, that air's going straight up
into your eyes.
And that's why sometimes people are getting dry eyes
because they're not getting a good seal,
the air is shooting up
and so much air is drying out their eyes.
And that was sort of the negatives.
So there was a lot of them, unfortunately.
And there's also plenty of positives.
Like I said, it's a polarizing mask.
People really, really love them
or they really, really hate them.
But there was obviously quite a large number of people
who weren't loving it.
The positive reviews were mainly around the fact
that yeah, no bridge of the nose issues,
also a smaller full face mask.
People were saying that they like this elbow section,
nice and quiet and so forth.
All right, guys, Nick's take home message for the day is,
although I love this design
and I love the way this masks looks
and the idea behind it,
unfortunately, the reviews haven't been that great.
And if the full face mask isn't sealing that well,
then it's gonna be a real hard sell point
and hard to get it across the line with you,
my loyal followers.
So I'm gonna say maybe there's better options out there.
Maybe you're better off waiting til the next
ResMed full face mask comes up
instead of spending your money on this mask itself.
I imagine they're gonna bring out an F30i at some point
in the near future,
which will probably have a top of the head design.
They have been following Philips Respironics designs
of late, and if anything's to go by,
they'll probably go with F30i
that has sort of the hollow frame coming down
that incorporates some of this.
That might be a better option, just waiting for that one.
In the meantime, though,
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