Trilogy 100

Hey everyone,

Anyone with a Trilogy 100 care to comment on their setup?

Do you use a passive circuit or an active circuit? (This might depend if you're using a non-vented mask or a vented one)
Do you use dual prescription mode? (Different vent modes for daytime and sleep time usually)

These are interesting questions to be asking.

I have a passive circuit. I do not use dual prescription on a regular basis. When there are times that I feel the need to make changes, I will use the secondary prescription for the test of the changes. I leave the primary prescription for my regular settings so I can switch back to them easily.

Curious as to why you're asking?

Curious for a couple reasons, pretty new to this machine:

I like the idea of the proximal pressure sensor line, that way I can stick one of those in-line filters on the output between the machine and the hose and still have accurate modes of ventilation (pressure drop across filter media would be compensated). I have very sensitive allergies and I think this would be very beneficial.
The thing is that, from what I understand of the documentation, you need to also use the active exhalation assembly because its either use both or just go passive.
So I have a couple Respironics active circuits on the way to play with but i'm encountering difficulties trying to get a non-vented mask. Traditional xPAP suppliers barely even know they exist, let alone stock them from what I can see. Currently trying to get a Hans Rudolph 7700 special ordered from my current supplier, but it's the weekend so e-mail is slow.

When you use the AVAPS-AE mode, do you get vibration of air pressure in the line after a few minutes? I think this is part of some apnea detection system. Basically you will be breathing normally and then the airline will start to vibrate at ~10Hz or so. The odd part is that even though its all spontaneous breathing, i'll get an apnea alarm. This I find odd.
My settings are:
AVAPS Rate: 5
Tidal Vol: 515
Max P: 26
PS Max: 12
PS Min: 2
EPAP Max: 14
EPAP Min: 8
Rate: Auto

Anyway, so far this is one of the most comfortable machine's I've ever used. The S/T mode just feels more natural to me than that of a normal PR 760 Bi-Level. The option to change the flow triggers is really nice, but I haven't quite found my favorite yet. (Auto-Trak Sensitive makes be breathe kind of faster than normal).

My machine has software version 13.2.

Anonymous Coward wrote: When you use the AVAPS-AE mode, do you get vibration of air pressure in the line after a few minutes? I think this is part of some apnea detection system. Basically you will be breathing normally and then the airline will start to vibrate at ~10Hz or so. The odd part is that even though its all spontaneous breathing, i'll get an apnea alarm. This I find odd.

I did a trial with AVAPS-AE and got that. According to the experts here, those are FOT's and yes, they are part of the detection protocol. They disturbed me too much and I decided, for that and other personal reasons, to stop that trial and go back to regular AVAPS.

I've had to turn off ALL the alarms. No matter what my settings, the apnea alarm would go off (others as well).

Previous post was me. I forgot I wasn't logged in. Sorry about that.

Yeah these so called FOTS can be disconcerting so its back to regual S/T with AVAPS for me too.

I wish sleepyhead could read the data from this thing.

aytikvjo wrote:Yeah these so called FOTS can be disconcerting so its back to regual S/T with AVAPS for me too.

I wish sleepyhead could read the data from this thing.

I doubt the Trilogy will be added to sleepyhead. There aren't enough people using this machine.

Unfortunately true. The data structures are probably similar though. The only alternative is to try and find DirectView: A task that so far my google-fu has been unable to solve.