Personal Therapy Comfort Settings Pilot Clinical Study

Personal Therapy Comfort Settings Pilot Clinical Study

350 participants will be enrolled in this study. The target population are patients newly diagnosed with OSA and starting CPAP treatment.

User accessible customizable comfort settings (Response setting, expiratory pressure relief (EPR) on/off and EPR level, and Ramp) will be set to either default (control group), or personalized for that participant (active treatment group).

Usage will be recorded for the first 1 month of CPAP treatment, to determine if customizing comfort settings can improve CPAP compliance

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients willing to give written informed consent
• Patients who can read and comprehend English
• Patients who are ≥ 18 years of age
• Patients newly diagnosed with OSA and indicated for CPAP therapy.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients who have previously used PAP therapy

• Patients who require a bilevel device

• Patients who are or may be pregnant

  * Patients who are unable to attend follow up appointments

• Patients with a preexisting lung disease/ condition that would predispose them to pneumothorax (for example: COPD, lung cancer; fibrosis of the lungs; recent (< 2years) case of pneumonia or lung infection; lung injury

• Patients believed to be unsuitable for inclusion by the researcher