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:I would recommend that the combined article be titled [[Positive airway pressure]], since VPAP and APAP are perforce not subsets of CPAP. [[User:Robert A West|Robert A.West]] ([[User talk:Robert A West|Talk]]) 03:09, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
==Merge with VPAP==
The article indicates that VPAP/BiPAP is the same as C-Flex. On the contrary though, they are very different. BiPAP has a fixed inhale and a fixed exhale pressure, and is viewed as a form of noninvasive (no throat tube) ventilation. C-Flex on a CPAP machine, on the other hand, is just an ordinary CPAP machine that happens to momentarily reduce pressure slightly at the beginning of each exhale. There is no fixed exhale pressure that's different from a fixed inhale pressure, and CPAP-with-C-Flex machines are not considered to be noninvasive ventilators. These distinctions should be made clear in the text.
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