Does AHI reflect treated or untreated?

periksson · Post by **periksson** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 8:28 am

Hi everyone,

Once again thanks for a great forum. I tried to search for an answer to this first, but the search engine required four letters

My question is, if I have an AHI of 4 after a nights sleep, does that mean the machine tried to eliminate those (on average) 4 apneas but failed? Or they were identified and treated successfully?

AirSense 10

Thanks a lot for your help,

Per Eriksson

LSAT · Post by **LSAT** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:05 am

You had 4 events per hour while using the CPAP. The machine can't eliminate all events. Should reflect a large reduction from your sleep study done without a CPAP.

Julie · Post by **Julie** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 9:52 am

You are being treated as I imagine your test results were a lot higher or you wouldn't have been referred to Cpap.

Pugsy · Post by **Pugsy** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:45 am

AHI numbers seen on machine or reports are the events that were NOT prevented from happening.
There is no way to know how many were prevented.

periksson · Post by **periksson** » Wed Oct 06, 2021 10:54 am

Thanks a lot guys!

Per

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