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Re: new resmed autopap

Posted by Perry on April 19, 2002 at 02:56:59:

In Reply to: new resmed autopap posted by ttwister on April 18, 2002 at 06:21:18:

Question 1 is answered by: When it ges US FDA approval.

Resmed has a very poor history of being truthfull about release dates in the US. ResMed strung many poeple out for over a year and a half on the Current AutoSet T (that is approved for humidifer use in the US) with the constant statements that the new version "would be out in a month or two". I personally heard that line for over a year, and there were people who had been holding off their purchase for months before I needed PAP treatment in anticipation of the "new" AutoSet T that was just arround the corner.

The history of this is that when the first home version of the AutoSet T came out (the Clinical version was out earlier) the US FDA rejected the design of the built in humidifier - and only approved the machine for US use without a humidifier (that machine routed the humidifier output directly back into the machine and through the sensor path where carryover and rainout could contaminate the sensors and provied bacteria growth areas inside the machine). ResMed promply told people that they would redesign the machine an "would have the new approved version out quickly", which after a few months became "in a month or so" I don't recall the times I heard the ResMed reps saying something like "It's just arround the corner, and will be approved anytime now. The second version came out in the US 15 months after I first heard the statement that the machine would be here in a month or two.

I am fortunate that I decided not to wait and went with another machine.

I get the feel that the AutoSet Spirit is perhaps the machine they intended (at least from a built in humidifier standpoint) with the original home use AutoSet T. It is also my understanding that their are no major changes in the detection/response stratagy of the machine (although I am sure they fine tuned some things).

I will let you know the details as soon as I can lay hands on one. However, I am not going to wait in expectation of that its release is "imminent," and I suggest that anyone who needs PAP treatment now, or who needs to shift to AutoCPAP; to chose from the existing machines on the market that you can get today (and not sometime in the future). It gets here when it gets here, and if it does not pass FDA approval - there will be a good reason.

Perry

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