The Comfort of Proactive Sleep Apnea Therapy

Exclusion Criteria

• •Subjects actively using bi-level PAP or require oxygen therapy.
• •Inspection of the participant's CPAP SD card data shows that history of highly frequent excess leak during therapy. Exclusion due to high leak will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
• •History of severe cardiovascular disease, including NYHA Class III or IV heart failure, CAD with angina, or MI/stroke within past 6 months.
• •Subjects who are medically complicated or who are medically unstable (i.e., cancer, dementia, unstable cardiac or respiratory disease, or unstable psychiatric illness)
• •Potential sleep apnea complications that in the opinion of the clinician may affect the health and safety of the participant.
• •Inability or unwillingness of individual to give written informed consent.
• •Neuromuscular disease, hypoglossal-nerve palsy, severe restrictive or obstructive pulmonary disease, moderate-to-severe pulmonary arterial hypertension, severe valvular heart disease, New York Heart Association class III or IV heart failure, recent myocardial infarction or severe cardiac arrhythmias (within the past 6 months), persistent uncontrolled hypertension despite medication use, active psychiatric disease, and coexisting non-respiratory sleep disorders that would confound functional sleep assessment.