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Software for Home Ventilators and Leak Compensation: Key Technical and Practical Applications

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Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation

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Home ventilators with built-in software provide substantial information for monitoring home noninvasive ventilation, such as compliance, pattern of ventilator use, leaks, respiratory rate, percentage of respiratory cycles triggered and cycled by the device, and apnea-hypopnea index. Certain values are reliable and useful, however, reliability of data is not equivalent between all ventilators. The clinician should thus not rely only on these data for adjusting ventilator settings.

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Abbreviations

%Trigg:

Percentage of respiratory cycles triggered by the patient

ABG:

Arterial blood gases

AHI:

Apnea-hypopnea index

COPD:

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

NIV:

Noninvasive ventilation

OHS:

Obesity hypoventilation syndrome

RR:

Respiratory rate

VE:

Minute volume

VT:

Tidal volume

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  1. Division of Pulmonary Diseases, Geneva University Hospitals, 4-6 rue Gabrielle-Perret-Gentil, Geneva, 1211, Switzerland

    Patrick Pasquina, Jean-Paul Janssens MD & Dan Adler MD

  2. University of Health Sciences (HESAV), Lausanne, Switzerland

    Olivier Contal PhD

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    Antonio M. Esquinas

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Pasquina, P., Janssens, JP., Contal, O., Adler, D. (2016). Software for Home Ventilators and Leak Compensation: Key Technical and Practical Applications. In: Esquinas, A. (eds) Noninvasive Mechanical Ventilation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21653-9_8

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