Sleep Review: A Potentially Huge CPAP Pressure Mistake
Why are only about 50% of obstructive sleep apnea patients CPAP adherent? New data spurs some sleep specialists to look differently at positive airway pressure flow profiles—and suggest pressure relief might be best placed where we least expect it.
For the past two decades, CPAP devices have been designed to maintain inspiratory pressure—the pressure level when a patient inhales—for the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea.Â