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 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Predictors of continuous positive airway pressure adherence

PG Catcheside - F1000 medicine reports, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is the leading treatment for obstructive sleep
apnoea (OSA), a prevalent disorder of breathing in sleep strongly associated with obesity …

CPAP compliance in sleep apnea patients with and without laboratory CPAP titration

MK Means, JD Edinger, AM Husain - Sleep and Breathing, 2004 - thieme-connect.com
Advances in auto-adjusting positive airway pressure technology for obstructive sleep apnea
now permit this treatment to be initiated outside of the sleep laboratory environment …

Comparison of automatic and continuous positive airway pressure in a night-by-night analysis: a randomized, crossover study

W Galetke, N Anduleit, K Richter, S Stieglitz… - Respiration, 2008 - karger.com
Background: Long-term compliance is suboptimal in the treatment of the obstructive sleep
apnea syndrome (OSAS). Objectives: We compared the efficacy of and the adherence to …

Evaluation of autoCPAP devices in home treatment of sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome

JC Meurice, A Cornette, F Philip-Joet, JL Pepin… - Sleep medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Quality of life (QOL) and sleepiness for patients with sleep
apnea/hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) might improve with continuous positive airway pressure …

Automatic pressure titration with APAP is as effective as manual titration with CPAP in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

I Fietze, M Glos, I Moebus, C Witt, T Penzel… - Respiration, 2007 - karger.com
Background: The optimal approach to initiate positive-pressure therapy in patients with
obstructive sleep apnea is still debated. Current options are autotitrating positive airway …

A randomized cross‐over study of auto‐continuous positive airway pressure versus fixed‐continuous positive airway pressure in patients with obstructive sleep …

KW To, WC Chan, KL Choo, WK Lam, KK Wong… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Background and objectives: To compare the efficacy of auto‐CPAP (AutoSet Spirit, ResMed)
versus fixed‐CPAP (S6 Elite, ResMed) in improving daytime sleepiness, health status …

Technologic advances in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

DI Loube - Chest, 1999 - Elsevier
Among adult patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), adherence to
continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) treatment is approximately 40%, according to …

Continuous positive airway pressure: new generations

FJ Roux, J Hilbert - Clinics in chest medicine, 2003 - chestmed.theclinics.com
Background The original CPAP device described by Sullivan et al in 1981 [1](Fig. 1)
consisted of a vacuum cleaner blower motor with variable speed control installed in a box …