ResMed MyAir Beginners Guide Score 100 Points

Today I'll teach you everything you need to know about ResMed's MyAir platform and I'll show you how to score 100% points every day of the week. Let's jump in now to begin. What is myAir? Let's take a look. Available with airsense and air curve machines, MyAir is an online support program and app that makes it easy to start therapy, track your progress with daily sleep score, and receive encouragement along the way. So MyAir is basically an app for beginners, designed to encourage them to stick with CPAP therapy, which can sometimes be a royal pain in the ass.

Now ResMed really needs to update this information a little, because if we scroll here to the FAQ, it says: "Is the MyAir app compatible with all CPAP machines? MyAir works exclusively with ResMed, airsense and air curve machines. They need to put an risk next to this, because this isn't entirely true. You need to have an airsense or air curve machine that has a cell modem that is compatible with a cell tower in your location. So some of you might just be running into problems with your MyAir app, right now if you've got an older airsense (10 machine) or if you've got a brand new airsense (10 machine).

Card to Cloud Machine

That is a card to cloud machine. So these new machines card to cloud machines. They don't have a cellular modem and as such, they can't send data wirelessly to the MyAir app. If you want to find out more about this, just click the link above. Alright, but anyway, I'm sure they'll update that one day. Let's head over to the MyAir web application. Now, a big thanks to Kathy Bacon, who's not only a wonderful person, she's also an admin on our Facebook group. If you'd like to join that group, click the link above, head on over and say hi to all those wonderful people.

How Does reMed Calculate This Daily Score Out of 100%?

So how does reMed calculate this daily score out of 100%? Well, there's four categories and each category contributes a certain amount of points to that score. Now, the first category is usage hours. This is how many hours you use your device for over a 24 hour period, from noon until noon the next day. And on this particular day Kathy used her device 7 hours and 24 minutes, which gave her a total score of 70 out of 70. So out of this MyAir score, which is 170, of those points are for usage. Now, what would have happened if she had 6 hours usage instead of 7 hours and 24 minutes?

What Does Events Per Hour Mean?

Let's take a look. I quickly just need to clarify one thing up here, also. What does events per hour mean? When you have an apnea, air stops flowing to your lungs for 10 seconds or longer. That is, you actually stop breathing. That, my friends, is not very accurate. An apnea is a 75% or more reduction in the air flow for 10 seconds or longer. Now it's not saying it has to be 100%, it's 75% or more, more often than not, there is still some breathing.

It's just heavily reduced. So the airway is getting very narrow. It really hits me when manufacturers and doctors always just say you stop breathing, you stop breathing, you stop breathing. I'll quickly show you what I mean. So once again, this is Kat's data. But now we're looking at sleep (HQ), which is my platform, and we'll take a look at her breathing. So you can see here there's two flags, Oa and Oa. Both stand for Obstructive Appears.

Now let's zoom in on the one on the left. Scroll in here so you can see Kat's breathing in, breathing in her airway is starting to get narrow, breathing is getting shallow, and then you can see it definitely reduces. But right here you can see there's still some breathing effort in there. She's still getting some airflow in, even though it's an Obstructive Appears. Now, if we go forward, have a look here also. ResMed's missed a flag right here. There should be another oa right there, but they've missed that one.

But this one here. Have a look at this one. Alright, breathing in breathing out, breathing in breathing out, and then complete flat line. So this one here is 100%, no airflow getting through, but the other one. Well, that might have been an 80%. So you don't have to stop breathing for it to be classified as an Obstructive Event. Just thought I'd clarify that for you all. Well, let's go back.

The Point System for Therapy Hours

Okay, usage hours. The point system for usage is calculated in hours and minutes. That's important. If you use your therapy for one hour, you get 10 points, or for 2.5 hours (which is the equivalent of 2 hours and 18 minutes), you get 23 points and they've got a little table here. So you've got one hour, 10 points, 2 hours, 20 points, and so on, and once you get above 7', doesn't matter, you've got your 70 points. One thing you might not know is this is accumulation usage over a 24 hour period from noon one day to noon next. So, for example, if you got to 3pm and you wanted to have a siesta, and you put your mask on for a couple of hours. That two hours that you use does contribute to the total usage over that 24-hour period. So if you use it five hours a little later in the night--two plus five equals seven--you will get that 70 points available if you reach that seven hours cumulative.

Mask Seal With a Maximum 20 Points Available

Now, just on this, though. That will count as a mask-on- mask off event, which is one of the other scores that we'll talk about soon. So just remember that if you're going to put your mask on, take your mask off for a siesta and then put it back on and take it off again later in the night. That is two. mask on- mask off events; Next up, we have mask seal with a maximum 20 points available. Let's check it out. Now, this is based on your mask leak rates, and this is excess leak rates. All masks leak.

They've all got exhalation ports where the carbon dioxide shoots out from. You'll all feel that you put your hand in front of your mask. You can feel the air coming through the little holes. That's normal. This is leakage on top of that excess mask leak, and it's measured in litres of air per minute. Now, zero to 16, you get a perfect 20, 20 out of 20 points available, and then, as your leak rates increase, 17 to 18, 19 to 20, those points start to drop down. There's lots of reasons why leak rates are important, but the number one is this, and I'll give you a little demonstration: We'll head on over to sleep (HQ). So here we have.

CPAP Machine Leak Rates - What Happens to Them?

You can see right here some really high leak rates. You can see these really high leak rates, up at litres per minute, and when that happens, when you get really high leak rates. Have a look what happens to the flow rate. Now, the flow rate, remember, is someone's breathing, breathing in breathing out, breathing in breathing out, and the machine, the CPAP machine, the automatic CPAP machine, uses the flow rate, this information in order to titrate the pressure, change the pressure to treat the apnea. But have a look at what happens right here. Look at the flow rate.

It's a great big mess, and that's because the leak rates are really high. So when we have high leak rates, it makes the flow rate look really messy. And if we get a really messy flow rate, the machine algorithm has a terrible time automatically titrating the pressure, and that's why it's given these UA's which are unknown appears. It can't work out what sort of apnea it is, and because of that it doesn't really change the pressure at all, because it can't work out what to do. So that's the really important reason why we want our leak rates to be as low as possible.

CPAP Masks - What Are Mouth Leaks?

ResMed also says right here: if you use a nasal or nasal mask, that is a mask that doesn't cover your mouth, also. It's important to remember to manage air that can leak through your mouth. Mouth leak can give you a dry mouth and affect your therapy. For more information. But what they're saying is: mouth leaks contribute to these leak rates. So if you're using a pillow mask and the air is coming through your mouth, that will contribute to high leak rates, and that's exactly what happened in this sleep-HQ example here. These are mouth leaks. Here's a little tip for you with regards to leak rates, make sure you switch your machine off before you remove your CPAP mask. If you just remove your CPAP mask, then there'll be a lot of air shooting out that mask and that will add to the overall leak rates.

My Air Score - What's Next?

On the score, the next category is events per hour, with a maximum five points available. Let's check it out. For those beginners, the events per hour is pretty much the same thing as the Apnea Hypopnea Index, which is just a measure of how many Apneas and or Hypopneas are being reported or recorded on an hourly basis. And this is the scoring system here. So if you have an events per hour between zero and 6.0, you'll score the max 5.0 points. But as your events per hour gradually increases, so your apnea is not as well controlled while you start losing points, and once you hit an ahi of 19 or more, no points for you. And the fourth category, which also contributes a maximum five points to the my air score, is the mask-on-make off. Let's check it out.

The Mask On Off - The Most Points You Get

The less times you take your mask on and off throughout the night, the more points you get. Now, this is a little confusing for some people, but basically, each time you put your mask on and then take it off, that counts as one event. So every night you're guaranteed one event, because we all put our mask on at some point and take it off at some point. So that's one event. And then, if you get up and go to the toilet throughout the night, then you're going to take your mask off again and then put it back on. That's another event. So, then you're already at two events.

Now here's the scoring system. So between one to two events you get five points, but if you need to go wee wee for a second time, unfortunately you're going to drop down to four points. Now, you may recall earlier when I was talking about the usage and giving you that siesta example. This is where the mask on off comes into play, because if you do have that siesta for a couple of hours, that's one mask on off event, and then later in the night, there's another event. So you're already up to your max two events available. If you get up and go to the toilet midway through the night, then you're going to be up to three events and you will start losing points.

CPAP Data Analysis and Reporting - ResMed MyAir Platform

I know it's just a game, but some of you, really want to get to that hundred, and in order to do so, you need to understand the rules, even though I don't agree with them personally. And here's my thoughts on ResMed's MyAir platform. Yes, it's very, very basic, we know that, but it's designed to be that way. This app has one sole purpose, and that is to encourage patient compliance, and I think it does an excellent job at that. It's great for beginners, let's put it that way. What ResMed could potentially do in the future is have two different modes: a beginner mode, which looks like this, and an advanced mode for those experienced users who want a little more information. And in the advanced mode, maybe they could change the category scores. So instead of events per hour being five, they could make it 20 or 30 to really encourage those people to work on their apnea control.

Now, for those of you that maybe can't access MyAir because you've got an older AirSense 10 machine with a 3G modem, or maybe you've got a new ResMed device, one of the card to cloud AirSense and air curve machines. If you can't access MyAir or you want a more advanced tool for CPAP data analysis and reporting, make sure you check out MyFreePlatformsleephq.com. I'll just give you a quick show of the information you can get. So this is the dashboard on Sleephq.com. You can see, there's just so much more information available to you, so you can really deep dive into your CPAP therapy to get the best results. Have yourselves a great day, guys. Thanks for watching until next time. Look after yourmates and sleep well.

Bye. Works on works off mask on mask off information: All the data for the mask seal for that. I can't filling talk right now. If there's anything that you want, If there's anything I could do, just call on me and I'll send it along. We'll love a meet to you. I got arms that long to hold you and keep you by my side.

Conclusion

Today I'll teach you everything you need to know about ResMed's MyAir platform. I'll show you how to score 100% points every day of the week. Let's jump in now to begin. What is myAir? Let's take a look. The new machines don't have a cellular modem and as such, they can't send data wirelessly to the MyAir app.

That is a card to cloud machine. If you want to find out more about this, just click the link above. A big thanks to Kathy Bacon, who's not only a wonderful person, she's also an admin on our Facebook group. Kathy used her device 7 hours and 24 minutes, which gave her a total score of 70 out of 70. So out of this MyAir score, which is 170, of those points are for usage.