MONTREAL — Combined use of continuous positive airway pressure and an at-home sleep testing device accurately identified elevated apnea-hypopnea indices in patients suspected of having incompletely ...
Should primary care physicians and other nonspecialists who are not board-certified in sleep medicine be able to prescribe sleep apnea treatment after home testing? No, Lee K. Brown, MD, of the ...
This Journal feature begins with a case vignette that includes a therapeutic recommendation. A discussion of the clinical problem and the mechanism of benefit of this form of therapy follows. Major ...
Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices made by Philips Respironics Inc. are still presumed by the U.S. FDA and other regulators to present a health hazard to patients, but the company’s ...
Amsterdam-based Royal Philips NV has posted the data from the complete set of third-party testing of the polyester-based polyurethane (PE-PUR) sound abatement foam used in its first-generation CPAP ...
Liran Oren, Ph.D., (left) is shown with Ephraim Gutmark, Ph.D., and Ann Romaker, MD, and the VortexPAP device. Nearly 40 million Americans have obstructive sleep apnea, according to the Council on ...
Your AHI is the average number of apnea or hypopnea events you have per hour each night. The ideal AHI goal for adults using CPAP is fewer than five events per hour. AHI scores can change nightly due ...
Travel CPAP machines are quiet, and some have battery power for use on airplanes. Most machines are compatible with standard masks, but the AirMini needs special ones for the humidifier. Travel CPAP ...
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