EPAP

Has anyone tried the EPAP?

Hi zaffy and welcome to the board!

If you're thinking of "EPAP" as being a machine, like a "CPAP", "BiPAP", "VPAP", etc., it's actually not a machine. EPAP is an acronym for a pressure setting.

EPAP is a required pressure setting used by bilevel and ASV machines.
EPAP = "Expiratory Positive Airway Pressure"

IPAP is the other required pressure setting used by bilevel and ASV machines.
IPAP = "Inspiratory Positive Airway Pressure"

Or think of it this way:

EPAP is the lower pressure setting for exhaling when using a bilevel machine.
IPAP is the higher pressure setting for inhaling when using a bilevel machine.

No EPAP is a device that one places inside ones nostril. It is the latest thing, but I cannot find anymore info other than a statement from a DR that it is new. I was hoping someone on this site has heard about it?

Is this what you are asking about?


http://www.smiths-medical.com/catalog/l ... ezpap.html

Thanks for your reply, but no, that is not what I am referring to. EPAP a new treatment is small valve you can wear in your nostrils that keeps the airway from collapsing by expiratory positive airway pressure (EPAP).

Back Feb or March 2009, one of my marketing execs brought me a company who I think had this device/technology. Coincidentally it was the same time I went to sleep center for testing and found out I needed cpap. Talked with the doctors and RT about them, and coincidentally a 'rep' was planning to pay them a visit.

Never heard back from the company and the RT was pretty skeptical about the 'technology. Unfortunately I don't have their website or other collateral materials anymore - will look around and come back if I find it.

zaffy wrote:Thanks for your reply, but no, that is not what I am referring to. EPAP a new treatment is small valve you can wear in your nostrils that keeps the airway from collapsing by expiratory positive airway pressure (EPAP).

I never heard of such a thing, but from your description, it sounds like somebody had a whiz bang brain fart!

I imagine a pair of little valves you stick up your nose. The valves I imagine would allow full inspiratory air flow, while restricting expiratory air flow, thus causing a build-up of pressure in the airway upon expiration.

Another get rich quick scheme? I don't think I'll throw away my APAP!

Jim