- Good day guys, Nick here again from a CPAP reviews.
Thanks for watching another one
of our tutorial instructional videos.
We gonna do a three part series now
on the ResMed AirSense 10 machine.
Very popular machine.
One of the higher end machines like the DreamStation.
It is very popular.
So we'll do it in three parts.
We're gonna do part one which is basically assembling it
and your daily use type thing.
Part two, we're gonna go through the menu system.
So have a close up of the screen,
just go through the different menu options
available for the patient.
And then part three,
we'll do the clinical settings,
which is obviously what your clinician or,
sleep scientists would normally use to change the therapy
pressure and stuff like that.
So you know sort of how to do that.
We'll also run through just a few of the features
of the machine and why you would sort of think about getting
a ResMed Airense 10 machine.
So without further ado,
let's get our teeth stuck in and have a bit of a looksie
I'll show you what the machine,
what the package comes with normally when you get it.
And that way you sort of have an idea
when you open the box, what to expect.
So the machine comes in this bag here.
It's got a few compartments in it.
If you open it up here,
you've got a little spot for your manuals at the top.
And then at the front here,
you've got a spot for your machine here.
That you can see.
So you can see the sort of drawn out where you put the
different pieces.
You can put the power cable in at the front.
Okay, there's a little bit of room
there for your mask as well.
And then there's also a little zipper up here where you
normally put your tubing in.
So there's a nice carry case.
Not that that's really important,
but you can kind of see then the size
of what you'd be carrying.
If you were going to, you know,
take it overseas or take it on a holiday.
That's sort of what you're looking at there.
All right?
Now that's sort of compartments that come with it.
This section here is your pump section and it also includes
your humidification heater plate.
So unlike the DreamStation that came in two parts,
your humidification section and your pump section.
With this one, it's all built into the one system.
So your humidification
and your pump section all as one unit.
And this part here is our humidification chamber.
Okay and all we do with that is we're
going to fill it up with distilled water.
To do so there's a little latch on the front there
and we can just open that up.
Sort of opens up
and you can see as well there, there is a little max level.
So we get out our distilled water
and we just tip it into the top
there up to the sort of the max level.
Oh advice, push that down till it clicks.
And then it's just a matter of just sliding it in, like so.
The next step is, well,
I should probably have connected the power supply earlier,
but it's already connected.
You can sort of figure that out.
I will just show you the block that it does come with.
So that's the size of the block.
It's a little bit smaller than the DreamStation block.
I do have that here.
So I will show you that in comparison.
So there is your DreamStation block,
not a whole lot different,
but you know, a little bit, a little bit smaller.
So we got our power supply connected
and the distilled water in.
Here's our ClimateLine streaming.
That it comes with.
So it's this heated tubing
It's got the copper coil that runs through there.
Little humidity sensor in there.
And you can see it's got two different ends.
The nice little round one there is gonna go to your mask.
The other one with the sort of little clips and stuff,
it's pretty straightforward.
We're just pushing it at the back.
Can really only go in one way.
and that we can see
turns in at the back.
So sort of as you roll that it will move with you.
And then our other end is gonna go to our mask.
Once we sort of got it set up like this,
with our water in.
You can set this machine up to have a smart start.
So you put your mask on and start breathing
and it will just start up automatically.
Otherwise if you don't want that
you can just press the start,
stop button on the top there.
The machine will start up and away you go.
So pretty straightforward.
Once you finish your therapy,
the next day.
You'd empty out the water,
you know clean the,
you know, empty out the water, you know.
Let it dry and then fill it up for the next night.
When it comes to a weekly cleaning.
You're going to wanna clean your tubing
and your humidification chamber with some warm, soapy water.
So just a bit of diluted detergent,
just some dish washing detergent.
You can't put this one in the dishwasher,
this chamber.
Unlike the DreamStation.
So you'll just,
just wash it by hand in the sink.
And with this tubing here as well,
just put a little bit of detergent in.
Mild soapy detergent famine either end.
Swish it round.
You can get like a little tube brush as well.
Sometimes people get,
it's like a little brush that you can go in.
But do this weekly, rinse it out,
let it dry in sunlight or nice warm spot in your home.
And then when you're ready,
just plug it back in and away you go.
Filter wise...
You want to change your filter monthly.
You can get a standard filter or the hypoallergenic filters,
which I recommend you get the hypoallergenic ones.
The filter just goes in this little part.
I'll show you.
Just on the side here.
I Just turn that on accidentally.
So you can see it just here.
It just pops out.
So that's your standard filter,
that's going in there at the moment.
If you get the hypoallergenic ones,
they cost a little bit more.
But they,
they are,
they very, very fine.
So they don't let the really fine bits of dust come through
and are again,
the less dust coming through the better.
It's going to be better for you breathing.
And also I think better for the machine
in the long run as well.
So spend a little bit of extra money,
grab those hypoallergenic filters,
you know?
Shop around for them.
You can pick them up for about, you know,
12 of them for about 30 bucks.
If you look hard enough.
So that will last you a year.
SD card
is in on the side as well.
So you just, SD card
you can press that in.
If you need to give that to a healthcare professional
or something like that, for data.
This machine has wireless data capabilities.
And what that means is the machine can connect
that up to your computer wirelessly.
And it can transfer data that way.
I'll put the link into the description of this video.
So if you click on the link there, you can go
to the ResMed.
It's called myAir and the myAir basically,
you know, gives you a sort of tips,
Usually a sort of a score out of a hundred,
depending on how well you're doing in terms of your usage,
whether your apnea is controlled,
whether your mask is sealing well,
and it kind of just encourages you to,
I guess,
do the best you can do or get the best out of your therapy
if you will.
It's also handy.
If, if you look at it and you might,
you know, instruct you to make changes.
So you know.
So if your apnea index is really high.
You might look at,
you know, changing some of the settings.
If your mask leak is not doing too well, you know,
giving you a good score on that.
Might be time for a new mask seal
or a new head strap
or maybe you just need a new mask in general.
Maybe the mask you've got isn't fitting you correctly.
So that's quite handy that wireless data.
You can also do the SD card thing.
A bit old fashioned,
but still really good, just take the SD card out.
I'll put a link in,
in the description as well to some aftermarket software
that you can get.
Not patented software.
So stuff that's free
and you can use that as well if you like.
The other great thing about this machine,
is it does have a little display on it.
A really nice display.
And you can check your data on the display
and we'll go in
and show you that in part two of the series.
So I've gone through some of the features of the machine.
I'll talk about some of the other ones as well.
One of the big features is that they've made it
quite small, portable and light.
This is quite handy for people, you know,
especially if you're jet setting around Australia
or around the world, if you're a frequent flyer.
They are very light.
So it's nice and easy to take with your other luggage.
You can,
if you want to use it without the humidification chamber.
And you can get another little thing
that goes in flush here.
I'll put the link in the description
and that way it does make it quite
small and portable.
Which is what some things people are looking for.
The,
just the general usability of the machine is excellent in
terms of the way the menu set out.
You know, it's really sort of dummy proof.
So, and that's saying a lot with this sort of stuff,
but it really is easy just to use this wheel to go between
the different menus.
I'll show you this in part two of the series anyway.
But that's really easy to do.
Putting the device together.
All that stuff, filling up the water chamber.
Cleaning it, all that sort of stuff.
They've gone into a bit of time and effort
to make it really user friendly.
Which is, which is very important.
Okay.
I've got a few other things here.
It has an AutoRamp function.
Similar to some of the other machines.
So if you are on a fixed pressure machine,
you've got to fix pressure, of say 10.
Instead of the old fashioned ramp that used to go, you know,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, over 30 minutes.
The AutoRamp would basically just stay at
a low pressure till you fall asleep.
And then the machine will kick into gear
and deliver the pressure.
So it basically means that, you know,
if you take longer to go to sleep one night,
it's still going to stay at a nice low pressure.
And then as soon as you go, boom.
Automatically, automatic ramp,
it's sort of the way the future's going.
It has this really nice clump line heated tubing.
So that, that means that you're going to like get, like...
Sorry!
It's turning on automatically
because it's hitting my foot
and thinking that I'm breathing on it.
So the, I was talking about the climate line tubing.
Really good.
Reduces rain out.
Keeps the humidification, you know.
Very even throughout the whole tube.
So if you are someone that's, you know,
really gets a dry mouth
or really struggles with the dryness.
This machine has an excellent humidification system.
So that's a good point.
ResMed are renowned for having really
good algorithms for their auto event detection.
So what,
what that basically means is every manufacturer has their
own way of determining what's apnea.
What central apnea what's, you know hypopneas
and the way that it adjusts the pressure through the night.
We're talking automatic algorithms here
and ResMed have a
lot of people believe that ResMed has one of the best
auto algorithms that's out there.
So it means that when you're having apnea,
the machine's very good at picking that up
and adjusting the pressure accordingly.
And making sure that you have the
lowest apnea hypopnea index possible.
I talked about the smart start feature.
Which is basically automatic on automatic off.
Most machines that they have, have that these days.
The wireless data transmission
it's handy.
If you're gonna get an import machine.
Like you're gonna get it from somewhere else,
other than Australia.
It probably won't have that wireless function.
So if you really want that wireless function.
If you're someone who's really into the data
and you can't,
you don't want to just look at just on this screen.
You wanna look at it on a big screen.
Then just be aware that it probably
won't have that wireless
that wireless thing.
So it's light, it's portable.
The downside of these machines, are cost.
They're very expensive.
They're a 24 volt machine,
which means that if you all got in wanting to use it with a
battery system,
you're going to have to get like a DC converter.
And I was thinking about 150 bucks for that device.
So unlike the Phillips, which is a 12 volt machine,
you can just get a DC cable for about 60 bucks.
So that's a downside of it.
ResMed parts are really expensive as well.
So if you're someone who's on a budget
and doesn't want to spend a whole lot of money,
if you're dog came and bit this tube.
You'd probably be up for over a hundred bucks
and stuff like that.
So they do have expensive parts as well for their devices.
What else?
That's probably about it really for the negatives.
I'll probably leave it at that.
Today.
So thanks for watching.
If you keen to learn a bit more,
jump on over to part two of the series where I'll go through
the actual menu sort of screen.
So you can check that out.
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I'll put a link to some other useful
information up on the left hand side.
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that I was talking about.
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