The original description of the use of positive airway pressure (PAP) as a “pneumatic splint”
for the upper airway to treat sleep-disordered breathing is now 40 years old. 1 This has
become the most reliably effective and fastest form of therapy for this condition, except
perhaps for tracheotomy, which is very rarely indicated. With continuing technological
advances, this treatment has evolved to be easier and easier both for the practitioner to
prescribe and for the patient to use. With attention to detail, most patients with significant …