Klarinet Archive - Posting 000020.txt from 2002/01

From: Tony@-----.uk (Tony Pay)
Subj: Re: [kl] Somnoplasty
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 19:45:46 -0500

On Tue, 01 Jan 2002 16:37:29 -0800, gary@-----.com said:

> [Tony Pay said:]
>
> > > Those who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea have often been
> > > treated with continuous positive-airway pressure (CPAP). CPAP has
> > > a disturbingly low compliance rate (25% to 50%)...
> >
> > Well, what that means is that sometimes it doesn't work. But in
> > common with others here, I can attest that it works in my case, and
> > I might even say that the persistence required to be a clarinet
> > player probably means that the compliance rate among clarinet
> > players would be higher than the figures quoted.

> My understanding of this usage of "compliance" is that it refers to
> the patient's willingness to follow/perform the treatment, not the
> effectiveness of the treatment.
>
> Gary

I see that, but the willingness of which patients?

Because I found the experience of using the device a bit weird to start
with, I can understand how *some* people could be put off. And you
could count that as 'not working'.

I'd rather say that the wording of the webpage is designed to put
people off CPAP *before* trying it; obviously the selling of any
treatment involves the diminishing of the effectiveness of other
treatments. I don't know where they got their figures from, nor do they
tell us.

If you don't do something, it doesn't work, clearly.

However, the nub of my post is that the treatment *isn't* significantly
offputting for several of us, me included.

Particularly given the alternatives at the moment.

Tony
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