Autotitration Devices

Autotitration devices are sleep apnea machines used in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and represent a technological and therapeutic breakthrough for positive pressure therapy.
Autotitration sleep apnea machines are intelligent therapeutic devices that decrease pressure when the upper airway is stable and increase pressure in response to airway events such as apneas, hypopneas, flow limitation, and snoring. Autotitration machines are designed to deliver mean pressures below what a clinician must prescribe on a CPAP machine. They do this by delivering only the pressure that is necessary at any given time.

Because autotitration devices vary pressure in response to events, they may be particularly suited to patients with REM-related apnea, positional apnea, or patients who are noncompliant with standard CPAP therapy. These patients will receive pressure when they need it; however, between event-laden periods the pressure will decrease.

Narcolepsy- a sleep disorder that is characterized by excessive and uncontrollable daytime sleepiness. These sleep attacks can occur at anytime, even while the person is engaged in an activity. During sleep, narcoleptics have an abnormal sleep pattern: They enter REM sleep prematurely without going through the normal sequence of sleep stages. Patients with narcolepsy often feel tiredness through most of the time. Other symptoms of narcolepsy include cataplexy, sleep paralysis, and hypnagogic hallucinations.