Are there different types of CPAP machines?.
There a three types of CPAP machines • The constant pressure CPAP machine . This machine can be started with a pressure ramping feature delivering increasing pressure over a selected time period until the user goes to sleep. at the end of this ramping period the machine is delivering the continuous prescribed pressure and continues to do so until the user either reactivates the ramp (some machines have continual ramping), these machines are most suitable for patients on low to moderate pressures, this is not a set guide as some CPAP users on very high pressures approaching 20 CMH20 cope with and prefer the high continuous pressure. • “Self titrating CPAP machines” these machines go also by the names of “Automatic” or “Smart CPAPs” the major difference to the constant pressure CPAP machine is that they deliver the lowest possible pressures to “stop” an “event” whether this event be an apnea ( closure of the airway) or hypopnea (partial closure of the airway) The “Smart CPAPs” respond by
