Reproducibility of a standardized titration procedure for the initiation of continuous positive airway pressure therapy in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

GH Wiest, FS Fuchs, IA Harsch, S Pour Schahin… - Respiration, 2001 - karger.com
… protocols, training of sleep lab technicians and numerous other factors may differ – sometimes
considerably – among various centres specialized in sleep medicine, the results of the …

Clinical outcomes related to interface type in patients with obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome who are using continuous positive airway pressure

CA Massie, RW Hart - Chest, 2003 - Elsevier
… ]), quality of life (Functional Outcomes of Sleep … Patients were randomly assigned to
use the nasal pillows or the nasal mask following laboratory titration and initiated on CPAP (pressure

[HTML][HTML] Optimal level of continuous positive airway pressure: auto-CPAP titration versus predictive formulas

NA Wahab, YN Ahmed - Egyptian Journal of Chest Diseases and …, 2017 - Elsevier
… starting patients on positive airway pressure (PAP) treatment. In some health care systems
PSG titration is … Similar to our results, a positive correlation was found between titrated CPAP …

Comparison between automatic and fixed positive airway pressure therapy in the home

CA Massie, N McArdle, RW Hart… - … journal of respiratory …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
airway pressure (CPAP) use and outcomes can be improved by an autotitrating CPAP device
in patients … Automated continuous positive airway pressure titration for obstructive sleep …

Titration efficacy of two auto-adjustable continuous positive airway pressure devices using different flow limitation-based algorithms

KB Hertegonne, B Rombaut, P Houtmeyers… - Respiration, 2008 - karger.com
… , in that we perform a titration procedure in CPAP-habituated patients, using a split-night …
the same results would be obtained if this technique was employed in CPAPnaïve patients. …

[PDF][PDF] A long-term randomized, cross-over comparison of auto-titrating and standard nasal continuous airway pressure

DW Hudgel, C Fung - SLEEP-NEW YORK-, 2000 - scholar.archive.org
… a lower CPAP pressure was associated with better patient compliance. Auto-titrating positive
airway pressure (APAP… Our results indicate that for some OSA and UARS patients, possibly …

Cyclic alternating pattern and positive airway pressure titration

RJ Thomas - Sleep Medicine, 2002 - Elsevier
Results: There were a total of 50 periods fulfilling the above … manual pressure titration
algorithms and research on upper airway … a titration night can reduce the window of opportunity for …

Positive airway pressure therapy of OSA

M Hirshkowitz, A Sharafkhaneh - … Respiratory and Critical Care …, 2005 - thieme-connect.com
… When properly titrated, positive airway pressure devices minimize the number of sleep-related
breathing disorder events, often producing dramatic results. Sleep-related breathing may …

The effect of one versus two nights of in-laboratory continuous positive airway pressure titration on continuous positive airway pressure compliance

JL Kaplan, SA Chung, T Fargher… - Behavioral Sleep …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… Consequently, the results in this study may have been influenced by the rural location of
our study sample and may reflect a novel finding in this regard. However, there has been no …

Multinight recording and analysis of continuous positive airway pressure airflow in the home for titration and management of sleep disordered breathing

CY Callahan, RG Norman, Z Taxin, AM Mooney… - Sleep, 2013 - academic.oup.com
titration on a subsequent night by the same technique as on the original titration may not show
much difference in most patients… CPAP pressure selected by single-night titration results in …