- Alrighty guys, how are ya?
Nick here from CPAP Reviews.
Glad to be with you.
Today we're gonna be having a little sneak peek
at the new AirTouch N20 from ResMed.
So it's not a completely new mask
they've got the N20 already,
but this is the AirTouch N20.
So the difference is the seal,
the part that actually goes on the nose.
So in the original N20 they have that silicon Infinity seal
and in the AirTouch N20
they have the new AirTouch memory foam seal.
And I personally have always loved the idea of memory foam
just because it's nice and soft
and also it adjusts to the contours of your face.
So I've always loved the idea of it,
but there is a bit of a downside to it,
which I'll discuss with you later in the video.
If you're struggling with skin irritability
if you've got sensitive skin
or you're getting a lot of pressure marks,
you're getting a sore bridge of the nose,
that sort of thing,
then this mask might be one to have a look at.
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All right, well, what about we start the video
with a bit of an unboxing
and I'll show you the difference between the two seals.
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Alrighty guys, a quick unboxing for you.
So this is a medium,
you can get this mask in a small, medium, large,
and for her variety.
And I'll put the fitting guide
in the description of the video so you can download that.
Most of you guys are gonna be medium or large
and most of you women are probably gonna be
in the for her or small to medium range.
All right, so what else have we got in here?
Anything other good?
I'll just, Oh, here we go.
So you get a little fitting guide.
That's what you're gonna be able to download
in the description there.
You've got your part replacements and things like that.
Soa little fitting guide.
So obviously you just sort of put your nose
up to the little part here
that just clips in there like so,
and that's the unboxing done for you.
Yeah, I'll put it on my little mannequin here
and give you a bit of a closeup
and I'll show you how it also works.
Alrighty, so I'll just give you a bit of a look around
and so you can see how the design is.
Again.
So four points of adjustment, top and bottom on either side
and you have this nice clear line of sight here.
So nothing over your forehead.
The frame itself is really nice and padded.
It's really nice and soft.
So it's gonna be nice and soft on your skin there.
And then you have this short tube assembly.
It sort of has a nice bit of movement to it.
So it's gonna be able to move around with you there.
It's not full movement, it's more 180 movement
the way it sort of moves around.
So it's not like a ball where it goes
backwards and forwards and around,
it just sort of swivels around there.
And then you've got your exhalation port at the front here.
All right let's take the mask apart
and I'll put it back together
and show you how it all fits together.
All right now, I'm quickly gonna show you
the AirFit N20 seal.
So this is the silicon version of the seal.
All right. And this is the new AirTouch.
So if I pull them up together,
there you can sort of see the difference.
So it is a bit of a different shape here as well.
You can see it's got this nice ridge section.
So it's gonna have a bit of play where your nose is.
You can see it doesn't really have that with this.
But the main difference is obviously this beautiful
soft memory foam that they've incorporated into the mask,
how they've done that, I don't know,
but it's joined in there.
Beautiful though, really soft to touch.
It's a really nice material.
You can see it's got that lovely little bit of play there.
So the beauty of that is it's gonna mold
to the individual features of your face.
And it's also gonna be very soft on your nose.
So if you do have sensitive skin
if you are getting a sore bridge of the nose,
this is gonna be brilliant for you.
Now, I did get an email from, I think it was Gary,
who said that he suffers from the bridge of the nose
redness and irritation
and he uses, I think he said it was 3M Nexcare Tape
which he reckons is brilliant.
So there's a little tip for you.
So thanks Gary for sending through that little tip,
I appreciate that.
Sizing on the bottom there,
so small, medium, large, and for her sizing.
And I think the for her is gonna be around the small size.
I'm not actually sure of the difference there,
but you can see it's got that little bit of play
at the bottom there as well.
So they've got a bit of play at the top
and the play at the bottom.
But that looks wicked, really cool.
All right, let's put the components together.
I know a few of you get stuck putting your masks and things
back together, so I'll do that quickly for ya.
But basically these are your bottom straps with the magnets
the top straps don't have any magnets on 'em.
So you're just gonna get your frame
rack it in the middle like so.
Make sure you've actually got the raised mid part
facing down,
and then you just clip that,
so you can see it just grabs hold of there,
so nice and easy in the middle of the night there,
it's just gonna whoop, if you need to take it off.
And then you just thread that through from the inside
around the outside on the other side like so
then you're gonna get your cushion.
So I reckon they could have done a little bit better
with this design here.
So just get your cushion,
it's just a little bit of a push in.
So you just sort of push it in like so,
and then you get your short tube assembly,
so that's got a bit of a play in here, which is nice.
And then when you're putting it in
you don't have to actually press the buttons in,
You just sort of push it in like that.
It's only when you're removing it
that you need to press both buttons in and pull it out.
And just when you're pushing it in
once you've pushed it in,
just make sure that you give it a bit of a pull
like so, just to make sure that it is fully in,
because sometimes what can happen is
you can get one in and it sort of feels like it's in
but the other side's not in properly.
So just give it a good push in like so.
And then that's your mask.
So nice and easy to put together
and nice and easy to take apart when you're cleaning.
Obviously when you go into the toilet
in the middle of the night,
you can literally just leave your mask on
and then just pinch there, leave that
and then when you come back from the toilet
you can just, it's nice and easy just to push that in.
There's the exhalation port here
you can see that's angled down, which is great.
It means that you're not gonna have air
shooting straight across at your partner.
It's gonna be angled sort of down.
Alright, this frame section, I'll quickly show you that.
Nice, soft and it's slightly padded.
So you can see it's got a tiny bit of width to it.
So that's a bit of padding in there
which means it's gonna be nice and soft on your face.
And the fabric material is beautiful
and they're nice thick head gear here as well.
Good Velcro tabs.
I think now we'll show you a bit of a fitting guide
and how to adjust to some of those leaks
and then we'll talk about some of the features.
Alrighty. So I'm gonna put this mask on.
It's relatively easy to do.
What you firstly wanna do is sort of twist off
your little magnetic clips on the bottom
and then what you do is, with your left hand
you hold the back strap
and just put up the mask to your nose
and then just pull down over the back of your head
and then you can with this,
just bring the bottom straps around,
clip on and bring the bottom straps around,
and they just clip on like so.
And that's beautiful.
It feels great.
Now when you're adjusting the mask for mask leaks,
I know I sound a bit funny here.
You wanna start with the top ones here
and you just wanna sort of, so that it's just...
I recommend having your machine on
so you've got a bit of pressure coming through.
The bottom ones here are more for just
alignment and stability.
The top ones are what you wanna adjust for your mask leaks.
So you don't wanna have the bottom ones too tight.
If you pull that in at the bottom,
it's gonna pull that out of the top
and you're gonna get mask leaks out from your eyes.
So you really wanna be adjusting mainly from the top here
and then if you need to, just adjust the bottom ones
and just make sure whatever you're doing
that you're doing them evenly.
And then when you take it off
it's just a twist and then up over the head, pretty simple.
So the point there I wanted to make was
make sure that the mask are nice and even,
once you've done it,
you probably don't have to make too many adjustments
but you don't want one strap ride around the back
on the other strap,
'cause it's gonna skew it.
So you want all the straps nice and even,
adjust from the top, starting at the top
and then make the bottom ones if you need to.
But mainly use the top ones there.
Pretty straightforward, aye?
Alrighty.
I'll quickly run through a few of the features that I love.
Obviously the big selling point of this mask
is that new AirTouch memory foam cushion.
It really is beautifully soft on the face.
So for those of you that are getting a lot of red marks,
you're struggling with soreness on the bridge of the nose,
or just soreness in general,
from that mask being pulled into your face every nighttime,
then this one's gonna be brilliant for you
because it really is lovely and soft.
I really enjoyed just having it on my face then
for that five seconds.
The other thing is you're gonna get a great seal
with this mask because it is going to mold
to the individual contours of your face, of your nose.
So that memory foam really does sort of mold really well
to your face shape.
So if you are getting a lot of mask leaks
from your Infinity seal or your other nasal masks
then this mask is probably gonna give you a better seal.
Overall, it's got a nice clear line of sight this mask,
you can see there's nothing up here in between your eyes.
So if you do like to put your glasses on and have a read
while you're falling asleep with your CPAP therapy,
maybe you like to watch a little bit of YouTube,
that's gonna be brilliant for you as well.
Magnetic clips make it real nice and easy
for those of you with arthritis and things
to sort of put on and put off.
There's no sort of fiddly clips trying to you know,
dexterity issues that many of you have over nighttime,
trying to find clips and things in the middle of the night
when you're half asleep, isn't that fun.
But these clips literally sort of just,
you can see they just snap on and snap off.
Like I said before,
be a bit careful if you do have a pacemaker, okay?
With the magnets.
It's reasonably easy to take apart for cleaning
and putting back together and things like that.
I did find that this part of taking the cushion off
was a little bit fiddly.
They could have made a few improvements
maybe a little button or something
or just a little clip that makes it easy
to take this cushion section off for replacing and cleaning.
It's just a little bit, you know
even now see, it's just a little bit hard to get that off,
but apart from that, relatively straightforward
to put on, take apart,
relatively easy to put on over your head and so forth.
I like the fact that you can change up the cushions.
That's kinda cool.
So you can try out the different cushions,
the Infinity seal, which is the silicon
or the AirTouch memory foam seal as well.
It's relatively secure in the fact that it has these
nice four points of adjustment.
And having the four points of adjustment as well
means that if you do get air leaks
you've got a few points there where you can adjust
to try and resolve those air leaks.
Now, even though these masks are pretty amazing
they do have one very big downside
and that is they recommend replacing
that memory foam cushion every single month.
Now I'm not sure how legitimate that is
and whether or not you can push it out a little bit longer,
maybe one and a half to two months,
but that's their recommendation.
So if you are gonna follow their recommendation
obviously you're gonna be up for a bit of coin
when it comes to replacing that cushion all the time.
Now, for some of you, all right,
look, the beauty of having that nice soft cushion
and getting a really nice, comfortable sleep
and not having those red marks,
it's gonna be worth it for you.
But for some of you unfortunately
it's probably gonna be a bridge too far
in terms of just constantly getting that new cushion
and replacing that cushion time and time again.
I do believe they make these cushions a bit cheaper
than your Infinity silicon ones,
so they do...
It's not the same level of cost that it would be
for replacing one of these silicon ones
which you might be replacing twice a year.
But at the same time for those of you on a budget,
you know, trying to save money on your CPAP gear,
it's probably gonna cost you a little bit too much
to be constantly replacing that cushion.
When it comes to cleaning that cushion,
basically what you wanna do is just grab
a pack of CPAP mask wipes
have them beside the bed,
I'll put a link in the description
there's tons of them you can get
but there's some good ones that I know
that are alcohol free and smell really nice.
And you basically just wipe it down.
You don't wanna be doing your standard cleaning in the sink
with your hot soapy water, with the memory foam cushions.
Just give them a nice wipe in and out
and that's your cleaning for the cushion.
With the rest of the stuff
you can do your normal cleaning
with your bit of warm, soapy water in the sink.
If you do wanna keep that seal nice and soft and fresh
and sealing well, then probably every month to two months
you're gonna have to replace that cushion.
I'm gonna do a giveaway
'cause I've been doing that recently.
So N20 AirTouch of your choice
with the Infinity seal as well
just in case you don't like the AirTouch seal
and also a nice pack of wipes
for ya to wipe down your mask.
Brilliant.
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