Royal Philips Electronics has released the BiPAP autoSV Advanced, its latest device for treating complicated sleep-disordered breathing patients.
The system is designed to effectively manage challenging sleep apnea cases. One example would be in those individuals who develop complex sleep apnea.
These individuals have apnea that develops into central sleep apnea only when continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is introduced, which is known as Cheyne-Stokes Respiration, a periodic breathing disorder. Because the apnea type changes from obstructive to central due to the introduction of CPAP, it is call complex sleep apnea.
When Respironics released the first bi-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) device in the late 1980s, it made a impact for treating sleep apnea, a role it continues today.
BiPAP autoSV Advanced is Philips Respironics next generation servo ventilation (SV) device, which is updated to make patient management almost automatic, while optimizing therapy for complicated patients.
The BiPAP autoSV has the ability to manage the patient’s airway and assuring proper ventilation by continually monitoring and adjusting to the patients’ changing therapy needs.
A major advancement in BiPAP autoSV Advanced is an auto adjusting EPAP, utilizing at its core the clinically proven REMstar Auto titration algorithm.
With this addition, BiPAP autoSV Advanced enhances treatment by automatically distinguishing between obstructed and clear airway apneas and adapting pressure to patients’ needs as their conditions change due to weight, alcohol use, or lifestyle.
The automatic adjustment of EPAP simplifies titration and achieves efficacy at the minimum pressure levels.
BiPAP autoSV Advanced adds the proven Bi-Flex technology which assures patient comfort by providing pressure relief during exhalation and at critical transition points.
“Unlike standard CPAP and bi-level therapies, this highly developed system is specifically designed to take on challenges of managing complicated sleep apnea cases,” says Eli Diacopoulos, director of Respironics’ Global Product Marketing in Sleep Therapy.
“Combining our core technologies into one unit furthers our efforts to make the complex simpler to manage and assure the very best treatment possible for these patients,” Diacopoulos added.
Using advanced technologies from Respironics, such as Digital Auto-Trak, which matches the device’s air flow to the patient’s own breathing.
The clinically proven SV algorithm monitors peak flow and can rapidly normalize breathing patterns of patients with complex sleep apnea conditions with breath-to-breath adjustments of pressure support.
In the presence of central apneas, when care must be taken not to over- or under-ventilate a patient, the delivery of automatically calculated back-up breaths encourages spontaneous breathing at the patient’s own natural rate.
BiPAP autoSV Advanced also offers integrated heated humidification and built-in digital data storage.
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