Posted by Bird Watcher on May 15, 2009 at 12:28:39:In Reply to: Re: Encore viewer questions posted by SleepyTimeGal on May 15, 2009 at 06:38:37:
These things record on a therapy day, which is usually 12:00 noon to 11:59 am the following day, based on the internal clock of the machine. So if you went to bed at 6:00 am and got up at 11:50 am, turned it off, then turned it on again at 12:10 pm and tired to sleep it would record this as the results of two separate days - and all other sleep until the following 11:59 am on the second day's results. Now I probably should not say I know Encore, since I don't use Encore, but I have used Silver Lining (puritan bennet) and ResScan (resmed) and they work much the same. There may also be an on-off limit to how much is recorded in one therapy day. If you were to take the mask on and off over five times in the therapy day it may lose the data since some machines are not capable of averaging more than five sessions in any one therapy day. I would also mention that these data and s/w packages for the PAP machines are not very well supported by the manufacturers (compared to other consumer type electronics) and PAP machines are not intended to be life support equipment. Being so, don't take the bugs and/or short comings of these interfaces to be a loss of your therapy. The air is still on. The data interface was only originally intended to be for the clinicians to spot general trends in patient therapy. The technology has never grown beyond that, as far as I can tell.
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