- Good day everyone, Nick here again,
from Cpap reviews.
I just did a video on the
new ResMed F20 full face masks.
So I thought I'd carry on from that
and do a little video on the N20,
which is the latest nasal mask.
So nasal being that it just covers the nose
and doesn't cover the mouth.
Okay. This is carrying on from ResMed N10 mask
which was a bit of a flop,
especially by resmed standards
and the main letdown of that mask
was that it just didn't seal well.
So it was prone to mass leakages,
especially up here into the eyes
and with this mask can see
they've sort of tried to address those,
those issues that they had with the N10
There's a few other features that I'll go into.
I'll put a link to the size guide
in the description.
So you can print that off
and check your sizing and things like that.
But without further ado,
let's have a bit of a look at the mask
and talk about some of its features.
So I'll start by just giving you
a bit of a pan around the mask,
so you can see it up close and personal.
All right, so you can see that frame
sort of, kind of like the Wisp frame.
So the way it sort of comes around the side there
and that's a soft padded frame
which I'll talk about going around at the back there.
Cool so one of the first features
I'll talk about is the
the headgear and the frame itself
so the frame is a soft padded frame.
So just on the inside here
is very soft and padded.
It's a very nice, plush material
and to be padded so
when you lie down on the pillow,
it's gonna be nice and soft to lie on
and it's less likely to leave
you know red marks on your face
and this headgear itself is also
they've made it softer headgear.
So it is nicer To feel
and you've got your Velcro parts there,
like the F20 one of the best features
which I really love is the magnetic clips.
Okay, so I'll show you again on this mask
so nice an easy so you can
just clip them on all right just clip on like
so and they just grab.
Now this is really handy for those people
that struggle with the dexterity
trying to manage clips
in the nighttime in the dark,
you might have arthritis in your hands,
very easy with this masks
just to get a good clip
and the magnet sort of just,
you know draw each other in
and away you go.
So that's certainly a great feature of this mask
and certainly something to think about
if you are frequently struggling with hooks and clips
and trying to manage those you know
manage those things within our time
cause it can get quite tricky,
especially if you do have arthritis
and that so the head strap is very nice.
It's very nice and supportive.
You can see it sort of
the way comes around the back here
you get a crown strap at the top here
and adjustable in four spots
one, two, three, four.
Another feature of the mask
is same with the F20.
You've got that nice clear field of vision.
So nothing up on the forehead.
Which is great because you don't get marks
on your forehead for ones
and you start looking like me with my dinted forehead.
But to you know you don't have anything
in front of your eyes, which is great
If you're a bit claustrophobic you know
it doesn't feel like
you've got a Cpap mask on
as much as you normally do
and you've got the ones with the
the thing up here on the forehead,
and also easy to put your glasses on
if you want ever read before bed,
watch TV, that sort of thing.
So I do I'm a fan of the clear field of vision.
I just think it yeah,
it's probably the way that that the masks
are gonna be going in the future
just not having anything up there
in front of the eyes.
Just makes it a little bit nicer to wear.
So that's a definitely a feature
talk about the magnetic clips,
this short tube here
they kind of this is kind of a handy little tube
you can see it sort of stretches
and this part here sort of swivels around.
Okay so having that bit of stretch
there is nice so if you move
and pull on it actually has a bit of give to it
and obviously the fact that it
can swivel move around with you
overnight time is cool
and this is a quick release type setup as well.
So just pinch here at the front,
so pinch at the front
and it just pops out.
Okay, so nice and easy
to sort of come back in and just push that in.
So if you're getting up to go to the bathroom at night time,
you don't take your mask off.
You leave your mask on quick release that
leave it in the tubing
when you come back from the bathroom,
click it on and you're all set to go.
So that's they've had them
on a lot of mask now
but still a feature and still
still handy if you do get up
and go to the bathroom
a couple of times of the night.
You're not constantly
taking off your mask
and trying to figure out
where it is in the middle of the night
sorry about that.
So the exhalation port
I'm not sure why they don't
put a diffuser on this exhalation port
might have something to do with a patent
that fisherParkel's got
or something like that generally,
if you think why they done something different
in the CPAP world or why haven't they done this,
it's not only because another company
has already got it,
and is blocking another company
with their patent.
Okay, some of the things
just don't makes sense,
but no diffuser on this
that the little insulation port the holes
are angled down
so the air will shoot downwards,
not straight across.
but still without a diffuser on it you know
you probably are gonna get
a little bit of noise through that diffuser.
Compared to say that you know,
the fisher and paykel eson 2 that
and the Eson have that nice diffuser,
which makes it very, very quiet
through the exhalation port.
If the air does get high in pressure,
that these little holes tend to whistle,
especially if you get a bit of moisture in them as well.
So you can get a bit of noise with it.
But you know I reckon you could,
you could almost just whip something up yourself
you know do a little but of filter material.
I don't know use your imagination,
I've seen a few Cpap hacks,
some of them are good,
some are not so good,
but, you know there's no reason
you couldn't do some
sort of modification on that right.
Now the the other great thing about this mask
is the improvement in the cushion the seal itself,
so they call it the Infinity seal,
good at coming up with their little words resmed
but they've added some support
where they were getting a lot of mass leakages
with the N10 redesign that seal that cushion
and that's made a world of difference
in terms of the seal that you get.
So they may design a cushion
that's gonna fit like a really
wide range of noses and faces
and also one that is gonna seal well
over a wide range of pressures.
So the engineers have done a really good job
in just reinforcing certain areas of the seal
making sure that you don't get those really weak spots
like they had with the N10
where, you know the air pressure can really,
you know intensify and cause those those leakages.
So, it's really easy to take this cushion off,
so you can just take this mask apart,
so you just can click this little short tube out,
and it just pops off the frame,
you just sort of pop it off,
but I'll show you up close.
This is your little cushion
and if you look inside the cushion,
it's gonna be hard to show you,
but there's these little parts
that attach to the wall
that they've they've got
that they've designed,
they sort of come off the wall,
and they've got thick parts
that run through.
You'll have to sort of get it to see if
the thick parts run through so it's quite,
quite thin here and quite thin here,
but all through here you have these reinforcement areas.
So yeah, a really cool really cool
bit of innovation I guess you could call it.
So in all really only three paths
this four parts this mask,
you've got your head strap
which attaches to your frame.
So this is that frame
while I've got to the thing off
I can show you the inside of that frame,
see it's that nice sort of plush material,
it's quite soft
and then you've got your your cushion.
Okay, there's your cushion there
comes in small, medium and large.
Like I said, the size guide
will be in the description
so you can check that out
to print it off and check your size
and then you've got your short tube assembly.
Being resmed, they do charge an arm on the leg
I think the RRP in Australia is about $275
so they do charge a lot for their products.
They are very good products,
but you know shop around and you can
probably find a good deal on it.
Probably get it for around the
$220 mark
and obviously over time
they will drop a bit more in price.
But overall, you know like if you are
someone who uses a nasal mask
and you're not quite happy
or you something about your mask
that you're not quite yeah
you're not quite comfortable with
certainly do check out the N20 mask
especially it's got those nice magnetic clips you know
clear, clear field of vision,
good soft headgear
and it's nice and easy to take apart you know.
and clean and put back together.
Okay, so enough positives there
to make it a definitely a mask
to consider in the future.
All right, as always, thanks for watching.
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and purchase the mask
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I'll put in the description of the video.
So as always,
I hope everything's going well with you and your sleep.
I know it's not easy, but hopefully
some of these new improvements
and new mask and machines
will make life a bit easier for you.
So as always, thanks for watching,
and all the best.