Your PAP device ignores any respiratory cessation event (aka breathing interruption) under 10 seconds. It is programmed this way because "=/>10 s" is the conventional threshold and therefore anything below 10s gets ignored.
So a 9.9s breathing stop = “no event.”, as far as your device is concerned.
SomniCharts™ resident AI says otherwise.
SomniScan™ is trained to scan ~720,000 data points/night in seconds and flags:
• 4.9–9.9s breathing drops (≥95%)
• Events your machine never reports
• Full waveform context for each one
- You could have dozens or hundreds of these events every night
- And still wake up with a “perfect” AHI
Real question:
Is your therapy actually working…
or just passing an arbitrary cutoff?
If you’ve ever felt off despite “great AHI numbers” — this is worth a look.
Missing the real signal? Most likely.