Treatment of Cheyne Stocks Respiration With Adaptive Servo Ventilation and Bilevel Ventilators in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Baseline oxygen saturation \< 90% on a stable FIO2)
• •2. Patient is currently enrolled in another clinical study which may confound the results of this study
• •3. Patient for whom informed consent cannot be obtained
• •4. Patient who is of pregnant or of child bearing potential without a negative pregnancy test within 10 days of the study procedure
• •5. Patients implanted with unable to tolerate inactive pacemaker, implantable defibrillator or cardiac resynchronization device for duration of testing procedure - approximately 8 hours (e.g. pacemaker dependency)
• •6. Patients with severe COPD (per GOLD scale)
• •7. Patients with a history of myocardial infarction within the 6 months prior to the study
• •8. Patients with unstable angina