What is an auto-titrating CPAP?
Before you start CPAP therapy, you need a titration to adjusting adjust a suitable pressure to prevent apneas, hypopneas and snoring for you. Conventionally, titration process means takings several hours sleep in a sleep lab. It is a detailed process involving a skilled technician to adjust the pressure to meet change in body position and sleep stage and to intervene for mask leaks after airway patency is restored. Auto-titating CPAP(APAP) devices are designed to increase pressure as needed to maintain airway patency and then to decrease pressure if no events are detected over a period of time, by monitoring for signs of apneas, hypopneas, flow limitation, and snoring. Therefore, APAP can be used to determine a fixed CPAP pressure level, and it is assumed that APAP could enhance acceptance and adherence with chronic positive pressure treatment.
