Puffin, a member of our CPAP Forums, demonstrates his Respironics Remstar M-Series CPAP Machine in this great (prize-winning) video. He clearly demonstrates all the kit involved including machine, mask, hose, humidifier and cables.
User-contributed videos like this one are great to get a real idea of perspective in terms of product size and usability. Many manufacturers nowadays produce short product videos but they are always from a sales perspective, obviously. A video by a real CPAP users shows the machine in its natural habitat, the bedroom. It illustrates the size in comparison to a pillow or bedside table and shows where the tube would go.
In this video, the presenter interviews a sleep diagnostics expert about snoring, sleep apnea and how to determine whether the snorer indeed suffers from sleep apnea. In this case, a home testing device called the SleepStrip is demonstrated.
They discuss the use of the Sleep Strip, which is a home testing device which can be used overnight and will tell you whether apneas are indeed present during sleep. Being a single channel recording device with built-in battery and processor, the SleepStrip monitors respiratory flow via sensors below each nostril and in front of your mouth. By analyzing your exhalation patterns, it will come up with an apnea index the next morning.
Home testing is only fairly new and as far as I am aware, not very common yet in the UK. In Australia there are multiple home testing programs and in the US it’s starting to pop up more and more. Considering getting diagnosed is the bottleneck in the current system, it would be great if patients could get tested in the comfort of their own home, without having to pay many hundreds of pounds for an overnight sleep lab test in a clinic or hospital. Not to mention the waiting lists for such sleep tests!
UPDATE: SleepStrip review here. I have been told the NHS actually uses the SleepStrip for pre-screening suspected OSA patients in order to ease the queue for their conventional diagnostics tests. For more information and to purchase online, see: SleepStrip on CPAP-Europe.com
This Respironics video explains the workings of their C-Flex variable pressure technology. Designed to make it easier to exhale against the air pressure, C-Flex is by many regarded as a major improvement on CPAP comfort.
C-Flex Video Transcript:
Respironics, the global leader in sleep therapy products and solutions has developed a revolutionary and more comfortable treatment for OSA called “C-Flex”. C-Flex therapy makes it easier to exhale by providing pressure relief during active exhalation, then returning to base line pressure before inhalation to maintain the pneumatic splint necessary to keep the airway open.
C-Flex eliminates the problems patients typically encounter with CPAP pressure by providing a variable release of pressure during exhalation. This pressure relief is based on the level of patient flow and the patient selectable C-Flex setting. Because it is variable, based on expiratory flow, C-Flex provides the appropriate response for each and every breath.
C-Flex makes it easier for the patient to exhale, then quickly returns to the optimal pressure for the patient to ensure that air flows freely to the lungs.In addition, C-Flex provides the patient a choice of three levels of pressure relief, assuring they find a level of comfort that feels best for them.
C-Flex allows patients to breathe more naturally, while providing the ability for patients to easily tolerate their therapy. A tolerant patient will comply with their treatment, improve their quality of life and eliminate the long-term risks associated with OSA.
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