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CPAP Driver Terminology

Posted by Aussie Keith on August 29, 2001 at 23:59:46:

In Reply to: There's an Odometer on my CPAP! posted by Tired Tony on August 29, 2001 at 11:41:36:

Tony, you may also have experienced these other instrumentation features:
Gaspometer - Description of air flow when mask falls off during the night.
Clutch - Action of placing entire hand over mask when experiencing multiple leaks
Foot break - What can happen if you leap out of bed in the morning still hooked up
Hand break - What can happen when trying to prevent yourself falling because of the foot break
Brace - Position adopted just before hitting the floor
Temperature gauge - Your rough mathematical estimate of whether room air at freezing point can reach a more acceptable fahrenheit after being delivered through a humidifier at 17 cm pressure
Airbag - How you feel upon wakening at 4 am with severe aerophagia
Wipers - Dry cloths required after you roll over and tug the humidifier out of its drawer on to the floor
Hooter - Nose
Headlights - Electrical phenomena generated by the brain when mask is pulled too tight
Flashers - See headlights

Other instrumentation definitions to help oldbies like myself greatfully received.



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