Initiation of CPAP therapy for OSA: does prophylactic humidification during CPAP pressure titration improve initial patient acceptance and comfort?

GH Wiest, IA Harsch, FS Fuchs, S Kitzbichler, K Bogner… - Respiration, 2002 - karger.com
… needed more accurately, thus avoiding the use of unnecessarily high pressures [21, 22].
All CPAP pressure titrations were performed with the aid of the conventional constant-pressure

The use of a predicted CPAP equation improves CPAP titration success

JA Rowley, AGS Tarbichi, MS Badr - Sleep and Breathing, 2005 - Springer
… of 224 patients underwent CPAP titration prior to using the equation, with a starting pressure
of … increases the rate of successful CPAP titrations by increasing the starting pressure of the …

Accuracy of an unattended home CPAP titration in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea

F Series - American journal of respiratory and critical care …, 2000 - atsjournals.org
pressure (CPAP) requires an in-laboratory titration procedure to determine the effective
pressure … We recently reported that one auto-CPAP machine can be used without titration study …

Continuous positive airway pressure titration for obstructive sleep apnoea: automatic versus manual titration

N McArdle, B Singh, M Murphy, KR Gain, C Maguire… - Thorax, 2010 - thorax.bmj.com
… since we did not wish to confound the comparison of methods of titration with potential
CPAP-induced changes in pressure requirements over time. There is a paucity of data to guide …

Sleep during titration predicts continuous positive airway pressure compliance

CL Drake, R Day, D Hudgel, Y Stefadu, M Parks… - Sleep, 2003 - academic.oup.com
… Thus, the present study was undertaken to investigate possible associations between
polysomnogram (PSG) sleep parameters obtained during patients’ initial CPAP titration night and …

Telemetric CPAP titration at home in patients with sleep apnea–hypopnea syndrome

R Dellacà, JM Montserrat, L Govoni, A Pedotti… - Sleep medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
… device, allowed the hospital technician to monitor flow, pressure and air leaks by remote
control and titrate CPAP (elimination of apneas, hypopneas, flow limitation and snoring) in real …

Positive airway pressure treatment for obstructive sleep apnea

RK Kakkar, RB Berry - Chest, 2007 - Elsevier
… One CPAP titration approach is to increase pressure in 2 cm H 2 O increments for apnea or 1
cm H 2 O for hypopnea/snoring at pressures … when the pressure is > 12 cm H 2 O. A starting …

CPAP titration for sleep apnea using a split-night protocol

Y Yamashiro, MH Kryger - Chest, 1995 - Elsevier
… We studied 107 patients with sleep-disordered breathing to confirm the effectiveness of
continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration using a split-night protocol. Patients spent …

AutoSet nasal CPAP titration: constancy of pressure, compliance and effectiveness at 8 month follow-up

H Teschler, AA Farhat, V Exner… - European …, 1997 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… whether the AutoSet titration pressure changes over time, and … titration produced a higher
pressure than manual titration in … titration produces a similar pressure to manual titration that …

[HTML][HTML] Reliability of home CPAP titration with different automatic CPAP devices

F Sériès, J Plante, Y Lacasse - Respiratory research, 2008 - Springer
… Our results demonstrate that pressure behaviour significantly differs between Auto CPAP
the pressure behaviour of different automatic CPAP devices used in a home CPAP titration