- G'day, Nick here from CPAP reviews
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is it great to be with you again.
Today I'm gonna be showing you how easy it is to set up
and use the new Luna G3 from BMC,
which has just arrived here in Australia
only a couple of months ago.
We're going to be going through the new user interface,
and I'm going to be teaching you
how to change some of those important patient settings.
So you can not only get the best out of your machine,
but also get the best night's sleep possible.
Now guys, before we begin,
I really just want to reiterate one important point,
which is if you are looking to buy a G3,
or any BMC product for that matter,
that you buy it from a legitimate reputable business
that has an ABN and also physical shopfront locations.
They are just so many dodgy online operators selling
these products out of their garage out of a spare room
in their house.
And believe me,
you do not want to get stung from buying one
from one of these dodgy operators,
so do your research.
Avoid places like Facebook marketplace
and Gumtree, where all these shady guys lurk,
and buy it from a proper business.
That way, not only are you going
to get great after sales support,
for as long as you have the machine,
which will be a long time,
but also if you do need to make a warranty claim,
you can be sure that that business is around
to honor that warranty claim.
Otherwise, if you bought it from the garage operator,
he might have moved house and you might be stuck.
Alright, but enough of that, let's get started.
Let's delve in I'm going to show you how to use it.
And I'm going to go through the patient settings,
so you can get the best night's sleep possible,
with your new G3. Cheers.
Alright, so the first thing we're going to want
to do is put the power supply,
very simple, I know but I'm going to show everything.
So power supply just in the back here.
Alright guys, so once we've got power to the machine,
it's time to connect the new integrated heated tube system.
To do so grab the end
that has the small gray cable attached
and plug it into the back of the machine.
Then plug in the gray cable which will give the tube power.
It's important when removing the tube,
that you do so holding
the firm gray plastic parts of the tubing.
Now that you've attached the tubing,
it's time to fill out the humidification chamber.
To do so push down on the chamber
to release it from the actual machine
and pull upwards.
From there, we can open the chamber and fill it with water.
Be careful not to fill it over the max line.
Once the chamber is filled,
we can close the lid and return the chamber
to the heater plate.
Push down firmly until you hear the click.
We can then put on our CPAP mask,
and attach the other end of the tubing
to the CPAP mask.
We're then going to run a mask seal test,
we're going to make sure that our mask
is fitted correctly before we start operation.
Once we have a mask on and tubing attached,
if we start breathing deeply,
the machine will sense that we have the mask on
and start delivering
the Positive Airway Pressure automatically.
We can also start and stop the machine,
by pressing the big black button
on the very top of the device.
To stop the therapy,
we can either just take our mask off
and the machine will stop automatically,
or we can press the big back button again,
which will stop the therapy.
It's that simple.
Alrighty, let's have a look at the patient settings.
So just rotate the dial so the screen's there
and you can see as I rotate this click dial,
that it's going between the different icons and into
enter an icon set, such as mask,
we just click in the middle of the click wheel
and it will enter that icon.
To get out of an icon we just click
the home button and it takes us to the home screen.
Alright, let's run through the different icons.
So at first here you can see it says preheat.
This is if we want
to preheat the humidifier over here.
So if you're going to bed in 30 minutes time,
you can fill it up with water,
click that button in
and it will preheat the water chamber,
so that when you go to bed,
you're going to get instant humidification.
The alternative is if you don't preheat it,
it might take about 30 minutes
before you start getting humidification,
from the device itself.
Moving to accessories,
this is where we have accessories reminders,
which we can set in the settings.
So you can see here,
we've got the air filter, minor tubing, and mass reminder.
And we can reset these as well.
And you can set these up in the settings,
which I'll show you in a second.
So we'll just get out of that for starters.
Next, we can choose what mask we're using.
So if we click that in there,
we've got mask type.
So we can choose the mask type that we're using,
whether it be a full face mask,
nasal mask, pillow mask, or maybe a hybrid mask,
and you can choose whatever one you want.
Just click it in.
And we can also run our mask fitting task,
which I did at the start of the video.
What this will do is once you have your mask on,
if you click this,
the machine will run through a variety of pressures,
just to make sure that your mask is fit correctly
and that you're not going to get
too many leaks throughout the night.
Moving on, if we go to report,
you can see here we have usage summary,
which is what if we click that,
it'll show all the data on the screen.
Then we go across, we have our IQ or QR code.
This is what we use for we've got the BM cares app.
And then the other one is Icode
and Icodes can be entered into a browser.
So just anywhere on the internet,
any way you've got the internet,
you can open up a specific URL.
And then you can enter those codes
so the easiest, obviously,
is just checking it out on the device itself,
which is very simple.
So we go to usage summary,
click it in.
And then at the top here, you can see it says,
one day, seven days, 30 days.
So we can choose the timeframe that we want to look at.
I suggest always looking at sort of seven
to 30 days is probably the best.
So there's going to be the last seven days
or last 30 days usage.
So we can click seven days in there
and normally it'll come up with all your data
and I'll just run through quickly.
So usage is how many days you used it out
of those last seven days.
So you might have not used it on the weekend
and have only used it five days.
The next one is number of days
you've used it over four hours.
So say we used it five days,
but only three of those days,
we use it actually over four hours,
the average daily use time,
so average up all those daily times
and average them out,
you'll get that number,
the use time, so the total time used for those days.
So all added up, the average treatment pressure.
So out of all the pressures throughout that
whole time, you remember it's an automatic,
you will adjust the pressure
between different levels throughout the night.
This will give you the average pressure
over those seven days.
So it might be nine, it might be 10,
but it will give you the average.
The P95 Pressure, this is the number required
to control 95%, that's the P95,
P95 percentile, at that number or below.
So I'll give you an example with this
because I was struggled to sort of explain it
but let's just say that number is 10.
That means in order to control 95% of your sleep apnea,
the machine was delivering 10 centimeters or below.
Okay, so it gives you an idea as to sort
of what the machine is doing,
but don't get too concerned about it.
The AHI, that's the holy grail of apnea indexes.
So that's the apnea hypopnea index.
It's basically a data set that tells you
how many apneas or hypopneas,
you are having per hour, okay,
and we ideally would like that less than five,
which is considered normal, five to 10.
Five to 15 is considered mild,
15 to 30, moderate sleep apnea,
30 plus severe sleep apnea.
So it does depend on your scenario and
where you're coming from in terms
of how severe your sleep apnea is to begin with.
But if you can get it sorted down between
less than five, great.
If it's sort of between five and 10,
I wouldn't be stressing about it too much.
But you can always fiddle around the settings
to make improvements.
So this just keeps going to sleep on me.
So different for an apnea and hypopnea
is there's different criteria,
but an apnea is normally 90% obstruction
of airway or more,
and hypopnea can be somewhere depending on the metrics,
30 to 50% reduction.
But essentially what it means is your airway
is getting restricted to a point
where it's affecting your blood oxygen levels,
and hence waking you up and causing all those
nasty side effects like sleepiness, bad mood,
all the rest.
Okay, but that's a bit of a rundown for you there,
so we can go back home from that.
I'm going to click home again.
Then we can go to just our general patient settings,
click that, first one is the humidifier.
So this is the humidifier over this side
on the right here,
and that's controlling the heat a plate.
So at the moment, it's set to auto,
so the heater plate will be heating automatically depending
on the ambient temperature and humidity
in the room.
So it's going to automatically adjust that
but you can change it to manual mode.
If we click that down,
and you can run it between one and five.
So the higher we go up in that number,
the more moisture we're going to create in the air,
that heater plates gonna heat that water more,
turn it to vapor
and hence create more humidity.
And humidity for those that don't know,
is used to alleviate congestion,
alleviate mouth dryness, throat dryness,
and just tends to open up the airways a bit more as well.
But there's humidity naturally in the air
that varies every day.
So this machine's now kind of a bit smarter,
it can monitor that.
And it can adjust the level automatically,
depending on the temperature and ambient humidity,
which is constantly changing throughout the night.
I'll keep on moving so we'll keep that auto for now.
If we changed it, to say four,
you can see then it's got heated tubing
and we can then turn on the level
of heated tubing, so we get more manual.
And this now is controlling
how hot the copper coil gets running through the tubing
to warm it up. Okay.
My suggestion for you is probably to start it
on auto, just to see how you find auto,
if there is something you're not liking,
if you feel like maybe you're too dry still in the throat,
maybe go turn off auto and start playing around
with the manual controls.
Okay, moving on Ramp Time,
you don't have to worry too much about that
because most of you will be running it
in automatic mode,
if you're running it in fixed pressure mode,
so you've got that in CPAP mode.
And a Ramp Time will ramp up from the base pressure,
up to your set pressure,
over whatever minutes this is.
So once again an example,
if you've got a set pressure of 10 centimeters pressure,
and you've got a ramp at 10 minutes,
it'll ramp up from low level four
and go 4.1 4.2 all the way up to 10 over 10 minutes
to help you get off to sleep.
Moving forward, then we've got the accessory reminders
so we can set when we want to be reminded.
So for example, air filter every 60 days
it will remind us to change our air filter
and so forth, tubing mask.
The main thing is like probably with the filter,
that's probably the one you want to change the most,
and probably 30 days is probably ideal
to have a look at that,
the more you change it, the better your machine
is going to be over the long run,
less dust is going to get into it
and obviously less allergens and things
that are going to get into your airway.
Tubing, you can sort of just monitor
the tubing yourself, just keep an eye out
for any sort of, stretchiness,
or if there's any holes that are in.
And same with your mask,
generally your mask seal and your mask headgear,
every sort of four to six months,
I recommend, some people recommend less than that,
but I don't want to stretch your budget too far.
Moving on.
So press home.
We've got a delay which we can put on,
what the delay does, it just runs
some air through the tubing when you finish,
just to sort of dry it all out.
So you can have that on.
Most people sort of have that on,
sort of turn it on, but it's up to you.
Brightness of the screen,
this is what's annoying me now with that screen
that keeps turning off all the time,
but most people have this off so that
when you're in bed,
obviously it just turns off quickly,
auto back lit, don't worry about WiFi
that'll always be connected.
And then you've got your date, time,
date, format, time, format,
language, use time, and a bit about the machine,
sort of your serial number and firmware version,
so forth. Alright,
so that's, that's pretty much it there.
Look, I'm not going to do the clinical settings in
this video because it's already a long video,
but I will do a follow up video,
talking about how you change these components,
which is what we call the clinical settings.
So that's really fine tuning machine
to really get it working super economical,
and really trading your sleep apnea super well.
Alright guys, that's it for this video.
I hope you've enjoyed it.
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Anyway, all the best with your sleep apnea.
Hope you're getting a good night's sleep and
thanks for watching.
Cheers.