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G'day mates.
For those of you just starting out
on your very long and challenging CPAP journey,
I'm sure you can relate to this.
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The head explosion.
It's just an overload of information, isn't it?
Very overwhelming.
It's hard enough as it is
when the doctor first tells you
you need to wear a mask when you go to bed,
but then to try and figure it all out.
The CPAPs, the APAPs, the BiPAPs,
all the different mask styles.
Your nasal pillows, full face masks, hybrids,
your obstructive events, hypopnea, central apnea.
I mean, what a head fuck.
The ironic thing is though,
that CPAP therapy is actually really, really basic.
It's just air pressure,
and you're having a restriction in your airway,
your airways narrow, and we've just gotta figure out
how much air pressure is required
to push past, push through that restriction into your lungs.
So the therapy itself is really, really basic
but I can understand how
when you first get told you have sleep apnea,
all this different terminology really does a number on you.
So I thought it was time that I talked you
through the different AirSense 10 CPAP and APAP models
and told you about the differences between the models,
just to make things a bit easier for you.
I'm not gonna go into the BiPAP models,
the AirCurves down here,
because that's when things really do get complex.
We'll save that for another video,
but 95% of you are gonna be on CPAP
or auto CPAP, APAP, all right.
And ResMed with the AirSense 10, has four models.
We've got the AirSense 10 CPAP
and the AirSense 10 Elite,
which are their two fixed pressure CPAP models.
And then they have the two APAP AutoSet models,
The AirSense 10 AutoSet
and then the AirSense 10 AutoSet for Her.
So we'll start with the two CPAP models.
So the big difference here is
that these two CPAP models don't have auto set modes.
They don't have automatic algorithms.
They're just fixed pressure machines.
You can set 'em up to one fixed pressure,
and they'll just deliver that set pressure
throughout the night.
Now, the Elite one has a few more features compared
to the basic AirSense 10 CPAP.
This is the base model here, just this AirSense 10 CPAP.
The Elite is elite.
So the Elite has more advanced event detection.
It can pick up on more types of sleep apnea.
Your standard CPAP can really only pick
up on hypopneas and obstructive events.
So just basic sleep apnea.
Whereas the Elite can pick up on more complex sleep apnea,
central sleep apnea, which is the CSA,
respiratory effort related arousals,
which is another type of sort of sleep apnea.
So although the Elite can detect these different types
of sleep apnea, the therapy remains the same
for the two CPAP models.
The only change is really for the reporting.
So with the base CPAP there's gonna be no mention
of central sleep apnea, Cheyne-Stokes respiration or RERAs.
Whereas with the Elite, you're gonna have
that information in the reports.
And that brings me to the next part.
So with the two CPAP machines, if we scroll down here,
this is the other big difference here.
It's the data storage.
So with the base CPAP you can see
there's two dots missing here.
So we don't get the detailed data on the SD card.
And I'll talk about that in a sec.
And we don't get the high resolution flow
on the SD card either.
Whereas with the Elite, we get that information.
What you do get with the base model CPAP
is compliance and summary data.
It's more basic CPAP data.
You don't get that advanced detailed stuff,
and we'll head over to SleepHQ,
and I'll quickly show you what that means.
So for those of you new to the channel,
SleepHQ is my baby.
It's my cloud based platform that I'm building out
with my best mate, that gives you access
to all this really great detailed data.
So this top level up here is more
of the summary compliance data, your apnea hypopnea index,
how many hours you use the machine for,
maybe some basic pressure statistics, that sort of thing.
But if we come down here, we get more of the detailed data.
This is what we call the wave form
which is Cath's breathing, every breath she takes.
And you can see here if I sort of zoom in a little bit,
this here is Cath's breathing.
This is on SleepHQ.
This is the detailed data up in the cloud.
We can have a look and see exactly what's going on
and you can see here, it's got the flags.
So these are central apneas that Cath's having here.
You can see they're all marked here.
This one here is a bit more of a hypopnea
that's been missed by the ResMed algorithm.
They haven't marked that, same here again.
That's probably a hypopnea as well,
although it might just be a little bit too short
which is why they might not have marked it
but that's the detailed data.
So if you get that base model standard CPAP version,
not the Elite CPAP,
then it won't have any of this detailed data.
It will only have this sort of stuff up here
at the top, the summary compliance data.
That's one of the big differences.
But I just thought I'd show you that.
All right, let's go back again.
So that's the two CPAP models.
Moving on to the two APAP models,
the AutoSet and the AutoSet for Her.
And there's only one difference between these two models.
And that is the AutoSet for Her
has an additional automatic algorithm.
And that is the For Her algorithm.
It has the standard algorithm
but it also has this For Her algorithm.
And for those of you that don't know,
the algorithm is what determines the pressure changes
in response to your breathing over time.
So it's what determines what the pressure does.
And the For Her algorithm is just a little bit softer.
Those pressure changes are a little bit slower over time
which means the pressure changes are less likely
to wake you up.
And that's a real basic version of it, but that's how it is.
And obviously as well, you have the color change
with the AutoSet for Her having a lovely lavender screen
and some pretty little leaves on it.
And really that's the only difference.
Now I will point out that with these APAP machines,
you can run them in CPAP mode if you want to.
So with the standard AutoSet, the black version there,
you can run it in CPAP mode, or you can run it
in AutoSet mode.
With the AutoSet for Her, you can run it in CPAP mode,
you can run it in standard AutoSet mode
or you can run it in AutoSet for Her mode.
So you've got that extra mode there
and that's the difference.
You know guys, I hope you enjoyed the video.
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and as always sleep well, look after your mates.
Look after your health.
And I'll see you soon.
Bye.
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