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CPAP vs BiPAP

  Per­sonal Care Pro­vides CPAP and BIPAP Therapy!
What is the dif­fer­ence between CPAP Therapy and BiPAP Therapy? Do they both treat Sleep Apnea? How do I know which one I need? These are all ques­tions that might come up once you have been diag­nosed with Sleep Apnea. The fol­low­ing is a sim­ple break­down of what each ther­apy is and what they are used to treat.

CPAP Therapy
CPAP (Con­tin­u­ous Pos­i­tive Air­way Pres­sure) uses a small machine to deliver a cer­tain air pres­sure to the indi­vid­ual in order to keep the air­ways open, mak­ing it eas­ier for the user to breathe. This air pres­sure is only deliv­ered at one set level through­out the night. This level of pres­sure is mea­sured in cen­time­ters of water (cm H2O) and can be set any­where from 4 cm H2O to 20 cm H20.

Your doctor may also order APAP settings. With an APAP (Auto titrating Positive Air Pressure) machine you can have a set range of pressure between 4-20 cm H20. This machine self-adjusts and gives you the needed pressure you need when you need it. You are still given only one set pressure at a time but this pressure can change through the night as you are sleeping.

The level needed is deter­mined from a sleep study and then set as a pre­scrip­tion by the indi­vid­u­als physi­cian. CPAP THERAPY is mainly used to treat OSA (Obstruc­tive Sleep Apnea).

BIPAP Therapy
BiPAP (Bi-level Pos­i­tive Air­way Pres­sure) uses a small machine to deliver two dif­fer­ent lev­els of air pres­sure to the indi­vid­ual dur­ing the breath­ing cycle. The machine deliv­ers the pres­sures with the indi­vid­u­als inhal­ing and exhal­ing through­out the night. IPAP (Inspi­ra­tory Pos­i­tive Air­way Pres­sure) is the pres­sure that is deliv­ered to the indi­vid­ual dur­ing inhala­tion. EPAP (Expi­ra­tory Pos­i­tive Air­way Pres­sure) is the pres­sure that is deliv­ered to the indi­vid­ual dur­ing exha­la­tion. Both IPAP and EPAP are mea­sured in cen­time­ters of water (cm H2O) and can be set in a range from 4 cm H2O to 26 cm H2O, with the EPAP being less than the IPAP set­ting. The needed lev­els are deter­mined from a sleep study and then set as a pre­scrip­tion by the indi­vid­u­als physi­cian. BiPAP THERAPY is used to treat some sleep apneas and also to treat other res­pi­ra­tory dis­or­ders such as asthma, COPD and those related to neu­ro­log­i­cal disorders.

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