Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and BiPAP (bi-level) therapy are used to treat sleep apnea. CPAP is the most common and effective therapy, and it’s often recommended as a treatment ...

You may have heard of CPAP and APAP machines, but there are also bilevel positive airway pressure (BPAP) machines. “BiPAP” is a trade name, while BPAP is the type of device. Let’s take a ...

Like CPAP, BiPAP delivers pressurized air to your lungs, but a BiPAP delivers a higher amount of air pressure when you breathe in than when you breathe out compared with CPAP, which delivers the ...

There are three main types of PAPs: continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), bilevel positive airway pressure (BiPAP), and auto-adjusting positive airway pressure (APAP). A pulmonologist, ...

Bilevel positive airway pressure (BPAP) machines are sometimes used for the treatment of OSA if CPAP therapy is not effective. BPAP machines, sometimes called BiPAP machines, have settings that ...