Air leaks

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Timrtomr
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Air leaks

Post by Timrtomr » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:04 pm

Anyone know why you're air curve vauto tells me I have 28 leaks and my Resmed led tells me 4 the past two days since using ffm .

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rcobourn
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Re: Air leaks

Post by rcobourn » Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:31 pm

Timrtomr wrote:Anyone know why you're air curve vauto tells me I have 28 leaks and my Resmed led tells me 4 the past two days since using ffm .
I don't fully understand your question, but I think the basic answer is "different thresholds for what qualifies as a leak based on volume of air and duration".

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Re: Air leaks

Post by Pugsy » Fri Mar 09, 2018 5:26 pm

Please reword your question. It doesn't make much sense and I don't know where you are getting 28 and 4 numbers...off the LCD screens of 2 different machines???
Which machine gave you the 28 and I take it the ResMed AirCurve says 4....isn't this ResMed a brand new machine?
What machine were you using? I forget.

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Timrtomr
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Re: Air leaks

Post by Timrtomr » Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:26 am

I've been using the Resmed air curve vauto for two weeks. The screen showed 28/30 leaks. The my air website also showed
28/30 leaks. Since I felt I was mouth breathing ....Three days ago I switched to full face mask. Airfit f20. Machine still shows 30 leaks but the website shows 3/4...all other website numbers events time used etc show the same. Only leaks are different.
I'm using the website until I can get my computer to download sleepyhead....

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Re: Air leaks

Post by Pugsy » Sat Mar 10, 2018 8:30 am

I think that the MyAir website number of 3/4 isn't a L/min leak number but instead some other sort of gauge...like 3 out of 4 with 4 being the best score you can get.
I don't use MyAir so I am not sure but the leak number shown on the machine's LCD screen...that's a 95% number.
I doubt that your leaks are causing the centrals unless the leaks are waking you up and you are getting awake breathing false positive central flagging.
If you aren't sleeping soundly and are having multiple wake ups then those centrals may not be real.

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