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Alternative Procedure to Individual Nasal Pressure Titration for Sleep Apnea.
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In the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), the current standard of 'CPAP titration' in the laboratory or at home is a resource demanding and costly approach that, in developed economies, markedly augments healthcare costs and in low resource economies precludes access to care altogether. Here, we discuss that current guidelines for titration of CPAP could be obviated by taking a different route that in many ways is similar to the institution of treatment in many other medical conditions. To this effect, we present novel population based data from 16,780 patients, showing that after individualized and labor-intensive and expensive CPAP titration, 86.4% of OSA patients are treated with nasal pressure settings within the range of 9 ± 2 cmH2O, and review the literature to justify the potential adoption of a standard therapeutic CPAP setting as the initial intervention which would be subsequently followed by any necessary adjustments in only a minority of patients who would not derive the necessary benefit from such standardized intervention. Assuming an 80-85% success rate as derived from our analyses, our personal view if extensively adopted could radically reduce healthcare costs and enable markedly improve access to diagnostics.
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FARRÉ VENTURA, Ramon, GOZAL, David, MONTSERRAT CANAL, José ma.. Alternative Procedure to Individual Nasal Pressure Titration for Sleep Apnea.. _Journal of Clinical Medicine_. 2021. Vol. 10, núm. 7. [consulta: 20 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 2077-0383. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/181384]