CPAP

[MarkF48]

How do you keep the hose from getting tangled in the bedding or pulled off when you turn from side to side?

I use a hose hanger which keeps the hose overhead. I roll side to side a lot during the night and have never had an issue with the hose. Not expensive and can be found on Amazon.

Amazon.com

 

[QRTRHRS]

My issue is with the Resmed water reservoir being to small. I cannot run the climate control on auto. I run in manual set at 3. Still, I wake up dry or almost dry depending i think on my pressures during the night. The"new and improved" Resmed 11 holds the same volumn as my "10" did. I wish that they had made it larger.

 

[pmsmechanic]

Just curious. If there is a power failure or the hose gets kinked and you're using a CPAP mask that covers both your mouth and nose, what keeps you from suffocating?

There are holes in the mask that are always letting air escape. When the power goes off you just breathe "normally" through them.

When the power goes off my wife wakes up gasping for air. I just tend to sleep right through the power outage.

 

[LittleBill21]

my wife just got the 11, she would snore non stop and move around. she has had it 3 days and i thought she was dead the second night after she got used to it, she was so quiet and didn't move. i couldn't sleep in the room with her after i woke up due to the snoring.

she was classified as mild with a pressure range of 5 to 10, and about 6 to 10 events per hour.

last 2 nights machine shows 0 events. and she sits around the 5 to 6 psi mark while sleeping

 

[LittleBill21]

There are holes in the mask that are always letting air escape. When the power goes off you just breathe "normally" through them.

When the power goes off my wife wakes up gasping for air. I just tend to sleep right through the power outage.

you might want to consider a UPS for the machine

 

[LittleBill21]

My issue is with the Resmed water reservoir being to small. I cannot run the climate control on auto. I run in manual set at 3. Still, I wake up dry or almost dry depending i think on my pressures during the night. The"new and improved" Resmed 11 holds the same volumn as my "10" did. I wish that they had made it larger.

i don't understand this comment, we just got the 11 and filling to the max, it last 2 days, is your pressure crazy high or something?

 

[MarkF48]

i don't understand this comment, we just got the 11 and filling to the max, it last 2 days, is your pressure crazy high or something?

If the room environment is dry, low humidity, more water will be drawn off the CPAP tank. Some people put a room humidifier in the room to help with the humidity which also lessens the water used by the CPAP. Mask leaks also can cause the CPAP tank to run out quicker. I have an AS10 with the humidity set to 4. It's a comfortable amount of moisture and there is water left in the morning. If I try the auto setting the tank may run dry.

 

[LittleBill21]

If the room environment is dry, low humidity, more water will be drawn off the CPAP tank. Some people put a room humidifier in the room to help with the humidity which also lessens the water used by the CPAP. Mask leaks also can cause the CPAP tank to run out quicker. I have an AS10 with the humidity set to 4. It's a comfortable amount of moisture and there is water left in the morning. If I try the auto setting the tank may run dry.

i can understand it from a leaking mask, i am confused that they didn't plan on it lasting the entire night. interesting.

 

[ponytug]

i can understand it from a leaking mask, i am confused that they didn't plan on it lasting the entire night. interesting.

I think because the reservoir size probably covers most of the population, and the folks with very dry air, or mask leaks can add an inexpensive room humidifier. The reservoir needs a certain area to be able to humidify the air enough in the short transit across the surface of the water. In designing products, I think it is hard to please everyone, all of the time, nor is probably economically wise. There is also a microbial cleanliness issue in that a larger tank might be less likely to be cleaned as often by folks who didn't need the whole volume. That would back up on the device manufacturer in a big way, and if I were them, I would be making the tanks smaller rather than larger to help keep the tanks clean when in use by patients/customers. (Not that I know what ResMed is/was thinking, just guessing)

All the best,

Peter

 

[LittleBill21]

I think because the reservoir size probably covers most of the population, and the folks with very dry air, or mask leaks can add an inexpensive room humidifier. The reservoir needs a certain area to be able to humidify the air enough in the short transit across the surface of the water. In designing products, I think it is hard to please everyone, all of the time, nor is probably economically wise. There is also a microbial cleanliness issue in that a larger tank might be less likely to be cleaned as often by folks who didn't need the whole volume. That would back up on the device manufacturer in a big way, and if I were them, I would be making the tanks smaller rather than larger to help keep the tanks clean when in use by patients/customers. (Not that I know what ResMed is/was thinking, just guessing)

All the best,

Peter

i design products, but you have to design for the average and dumbest person. most people do not want to come off "auto" the gentlemen above is from Massachusetts, that's not exactly a dry environment. i feel like they would get a ton of complaints , for something that does not really need to be much larger, I believe the tanks are also replaceable under insurance, so it seems like an odd design choice to me

 

[kenmbz]

I stopped using the humidifier tank once I started using a large room humidifier.

 

[MarkF48]

i design products, but you have to design for the average and dumbest person. most people do not want to come off "auto" the gentlemen above is from Massachusetts, that's not exactly a dry environment. i feel like they would get a ton of complaints , for something that does not really need to be much larger, I believe the tanks are also replaceable under insurance, so it seems like an odd design choice to me

It's pretty dry in the house in the Winter with a pellet stove running (35% RH at the moment). I do have a couple humidifiers, but their contribution doesn't amount to much. Humid Summers I hardly use any water in the tank.

 

[LittleBill21]

out west humidity is like 3-5%, i would assume the manufacture would design for the country, just an interesting point, don't take it as fighting.

 

[ponytug]

out west humidity is like 3-5%, i would assume the manufacture would design for the country, just an interesting point, don't take it as fighting.

ResMed is a global company based in San Diego, and was founded in Australia in 1989, a rather dry climate for the most part, not unlike California, and many heated homes in the winter time.

I really think that this comes down to multiple ways to skin a cat. ResMed has been a medical device manufacturer for a long time, and is arguably currently the global leader in CPAP, after Philips' recent issues. As they face oversight from regulatory agencies concerned about many issues in virtually every country that they operate in, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

As someone who has been involved in medical device design, I personally do keep coming back to the need to have microbially clean water in the tank, and to have clean hoses and masks. A smaller tank helps turnover the water regularly, especially if patients adhere to the advice in the manual. (Knowing that not every user adheres to the recommendations in the manual, what might you do to limit the possible downsized to non-adherence? Personally, I'd run some trials with devices in the hands of those users and see what designers might proactively help keep those patients safe. The longer they stare, the more products that they will buy, so the company's incentives line up pretty well with patients from where I sit.) In hospitals, these devices are run through sterilizers on a regular basis.

Yes, I can see that a small tank is more of a hassle, especially if it runs out.



All the best,

Peter

 

[QRTRHRS]

i don't understand this comment, we just got the 11 and filling to the max, it last 2 days, is your pressure crazy high or something?

10 to 20

 

[QRTRHRS]

We do run a humidifier continuously. I set the hose temp at the same temp that we keep the house, 72°.

 

[RayIN]

I forgot to say, I bought a wedge pillow instead of a cpap and I've done ok for the past 30 years.

 

[bdhsfz6]

With all the moisture in the CPAP hose & mask, how do you deal with bacterial buildup?

 

[Redbug]

With all the moisture in the CPAP hose & mask, how do you deal with bacterial buildup?

When you press the stop button and take the head gear off, my CPAP machine runs a slow amount of dry air thru it and after maybe a half hour it will do a quiet puff of air and stop.

 

[kf4uda]

My Wife and I both use CPAPs. I bought a portable power station to use in case of a power outage and for various other uses. After testing it out I still had it connected and we had a power outage early this morning and our CPAPs kept on running. Looks like it will run them for 2 nights or more. The power station is a Bluetti Elite 100.