Fascination Sobre Strugle with CPAP

Fascination Sobre Strugle with CPAP

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With CPAP, the mainstay treatment for the disorder, you typically wear a masklike apparatus that’s connected to a pump. The pump pushes air into your airway, holding it open while you sleep.

"Patients sometimes ask if they can die from not getting their sleep apnea treated. The short answer is ‘yes,’" Dasgupta says.

In general, CPAP is more effective at resolving sleep disordered breathing and improving oxygen saturations, though oral appliances tend to improve symptoms of daytime sleepiness to similar degree as CPAP. The effect of oral appliances on improving cardiovascular outcomes such as hypertension is not clear at this time.

Weight: People with a BMI of 32 or higher may not be ideal candidates for Inspire sleep apnea treatment due to the effect obesity can have in reducing the effectiveness of upper airway stimulation.

Use Ice or Heat: If you experience discomfort or the area is slightly swollen, apply a cold, wet compress to your face. Your doctor may also encourage you to try a warm compress if you develop an open wound, have CPAP acne, or develop an active infection.

Always talk with your doctor before making any major changes to your current CPAP routine. Keep in mind that you cannot change the pressure settings on your CPAP machine without a healthcare provider’s approval.

At your fitting (which may be done at home or at a sleep center), "try masks on with the doctor-recommended air pressure settings you’ll be using to see what it really feels like when the machine is on," Dasgupta advises.

In some conditions, the CPAP mask itself can interfere with sleep. In such cases, patients can turn to oral appliance therapy for an option that’s more user friendly.

The Inspire SleepSync platform is a connected patient management system designed to improve the Inspire therapy experience for patients and providers. The Inspire SleepSync platform enables wireless and automatic implant monitoring, efficient care coordination, and dynamic patient engagement.

This impacts the effectiveness of your CPAP treatment due to your therapy air escaping but also causes dry mouth.

See a Specialist If the Problem Persists: If you’re still experiencing issues after trying these recommendations, you may need to visit your ENT (be sure to let them know you’re on CPAP therapy) for guidance.

The oral appliance adjusts the position of the jaw or tongue during sleep, keeping everything read more forward so that it’s less likely that the soft tissues at the back of the throat will interfere with the airway opening. In contrast, a CPAP mask forces air into the airway in order to keep it open.

Most studies evaluating the effectiveness of positional therapy are based on data from small, uncontrolled studies with relatively short-term follow up. A few observational trials with longer-term follow suggest that compliance with positional therapy over time is poor. Thus, positional therapy using various modalities should typically be recommended for patients as a secondary or supplemental therapy.

Base of tongue collapse is recognized as a significant sitio of obstruction in patients with OSA and is often underappreciated. There may also be an associated epiglottic contribution (64). Both of these will significantly increase CPAP pressure requirement and hence cause difficulty in tolerating this form of therapy.