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
Treatment of sleep apnea–hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) by fixed continuous positive airway
pressure (CPAP) requires an in-laboratory titration procedure to determine the effective …

Alternative methods of titrating continuous positive airway pressure: a large multicenter study

JF Masa, A Jiménez, J Durán, F Capote… - American journal of …, 2004 - atsjournals.org
Standard practice for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment in sleep apnea
and hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) requires pressure titration during attended laboratory …

Comparison of manual and automatic CPAP titration in patients with sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome.

P Lloberes, E Ballester, JM Montserrat… - American journal of …, 1996 - atsjournals.org
Automatic CPAP (auto-CPAP) is engineered to automatically provide a positive pressure to
the upper airway in response to apnea, hypopnea, airflow limitation, or snoring in patients …

Can patients with obstructive sleep apnea titrate their own continuous positive airway pressure?

MF Fitzpatrick, CED Alloway, TM Wakeford… - American journal of …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
Manual continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration in a sleep laboratory is costly
and limits access for diagnostic studies. Many factors affect CPAP compliance, but education …

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
Background: Manual titration of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) under
polysomnographic control is the method most commonly employed to establish the minimal …

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

R Dellacà, JM Montserrat, L Govoni, A Pedotti… - Sleep medicine, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Home continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) titration with automatic
devices is not possible in a non-negligible percentage of patients with sleep apnea …

[HTML][HTML] A randomized trial of auto-titrating CPAP and fixed CPAP in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea–hypopnea

SF Hussain, L Love, H Burt, JA Fleetham - Respiratory medicine, 2004 - Elsevier
Background: Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) remains the treatment of choice
for obstructive sleep apnea–hypopnea (OSAH). Auto-titrating CPAP (APAP) devices …

Constant vs auto-continuous positive airway pressure in patients with sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome and a high variability in pressure requirement

A Noseda, C Kempenaers, M Kerkhofs, S Braun… - Chest, 2004 - Elsevier
Study objectives: Auto-continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) has been reported to
have no more efficacy than constant CPAP in unselected patients with sleep apnea …

Randomized short-term trial of two autoCPAP devices versus fixed continuous positive airway pressure for the treatment of sleep apnea

O Senn, T Brack, F Matthews, EW Russi… - American journal of …, 2003 - atsjournals.org
We evaluated the efficacy of two different continuous positive airway pressure devices with
automatic mask pressure adjustment (autoCPAP) in comparison with fixed CPAP in treating …

Pressure-relief continuous positive airway pressure vs constant continuous positive airway pressure: a comparison of efficacy and compliance

G Nilius, A Happel, U Domanski, KH Ruhle - Chest, 2006 - Elsevier
Objectives To compare polysomnographic data and compliance in sleep apnea patients
receiving continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and pressure-relief CPAP …