bipap

Dear PALS, hope you the bests. I started Bipap 1 year ago for my patient with below settings: mode: ST IPAP: 12.0 EPAP: 5.0 IBR: on Target pt Rate: 14 Trigger: high (i dont know what is this) Cycle: Med (i dont know what is this) Ti max: 2.0 sec (i dont know what is this) Ti min: 0.3 sec...

The aim of this trial is to test a heart failure drug (levosimendan) already on the market to confirm an earlier study suggesting respiratory impairment could be delayed. It's an oral capsule, the trial is placebo-controlled, and you cannot be on BiPAP.

I use my BiPap at night. I use the nose piece one, not full mask. I've been getting headaches during the day. Had a bad one yesterday. Somewhere I read in an old thread or somewhere that a BiPap will help relieve headaches. Yesterday I was ready to try anything and I remembered reading that...

My PALS a mask that just covers nose and mouth will give him a pressure sore on the bridge of his nose if he wears it too long. So he wears a full-face mask almost all the time. That only works without his glasses. He has a humidifier on his bipap or his mouth would become a near desert. So...

My husband seems to be coming down with a cold and I have no idea what to do. This is the first illness he has gotten since diagnosis a year ago. He is on a feeding tube and a bipap at night (12-14 hours). Last time it was tested his breathing was around 50% (don't have raw numbers). He has a...

this is happening more frequently. Our strategy is to remove bipap, it makes it impossible for me to clear anything from throat, and tip my chair forward until we can spit out or suction the saliva and gunk. Laurie wrote this on another thread. ote: If someone is gasping for air on an ongoing...

I have a question concerning breathing...when you decide not to vent what happens next. What do they do to keep you from grasping for breath. How long can you go just using the bipap.

My PALS received his Bipap machine yesterday. It is a Philips "Dream Station" Bipap S/T. It is from the VA, so we have added layers of admin when dealing with info etc. so I thought I'd ask here first. The respiratory tech who brought it said my PALS is to wear it at night only right now...

My 80 year old mother in law is now entering what we believe are the final stages of the disease. She is almost completely paralyzed from the neck down and needs the bipap 24 hours a day. No trach or stomach tube. Her voice is relatively strong, however, and we have done the maximum to give...

Hello, My mom is in the end stages of ALS. We had in-home hospice for a week when we decided together to go to the in-patient facility so she could be more comfortable as the meds at home were not doing enough. We’ve been here almost a week now and she had been more comfortable but now I am...