Sleep During Titration Predicts Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Compliance

Continuous positive airway pressure titration for obstructive sleep apnoea: automatic versus manual titration.

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Manual laboratory continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is costly, time intensive and delays access to treatment. Automatic positive airway pressure (APAP) titration has the potential to reduce cost and improve access to treatment. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical efficacy and costs of APAP titration compared ...

Potential rebreathing after continuous positive airway pressure failure during sleep.

BACKGROUND Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is widely applied as a home treatment during sleep. Conventional CPAP devices are based on a blower to generate nasal pressure and to maintain air washout from the circuit. Because common CPAP systems do not incorporate alarms, failure in the device or in the electric supply could result in rebreathing. AIM To assess the potential rebreath...

Intraocular Pressure during Continuous Positive Airway Pressure

Efficacy of daytime continuous positive airway pressure titration in severe obstructive sleep apnoea.

The aim of this study was to evaluate manual nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) titration during daytime polysomnography compared with conventional overnight titration for patients with severe obstructive sleep apnoea. Thirty-two patients who underwent daytime titration were retrospectively matched (for age, sex, body mass index and apnoea/hypopnoea index (AHI)) to a group titrat...

Titration with automatic continuous positive airway pressure in obstructive sleep apnea.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Autotitrating positive airway pressure (APAP) is an accepted titration method to determine the optimal positive airway pressure (PAP), for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The required duration of APAP monitoring to determine a fixed continuous positive airway pressure level still remains to be established. We aimed to evaluate the variation in PAP level,...