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From: James Stewart on 12 Jun 2008 01:56
I just spent a few nights in the hospital because of blood clots in the
lungs. But that is a different story.

I asked for a cpap with a heated humidifier and all they had was a fairly
large machine with neither heat nor humidity, but that wasn't the problem.

The problem was that they had Respironics Image3 masks connected to a
length of tubing with a port for oxygen and a hole surrounded by a raised
lip with four notches. This hole whistled shrilly so that I could get no
sleep at all, never mind people sticking needles in my arms for one reason
or another. I finally got into a raging argument with the respiratory guy
about how he could not possibly have the thing set up right, but with all
the wires and tubes I was not in a good position to win the debate. I
finally found a way of bunching the sheets around the whistling hole to
quiet it and which also gave more air flow into the mask.

Another night or two before I could get my own machine passed with poor
sleeping and much anoyance. When I got that I slept like the dead for the
rest of my stay, sleeping through blood draws and everything.

I did a little snooping around on line when I got home and found that the
mask is not shown as being used with such an extension tube and is not
shown or described as needing such hole. Respironics brags about how
quiet the mask is. It sells at prices ranging from fifty to one hundred
and fifty dollars and is not what respironics called the disposble
version. Tje mask itself is nice enough but the setup at the hospital was
terribly poor.


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