Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machine is the best standard treatment for OSA.

• A CPAP machine is a pump which delivers air pressure.
• The air travels from the machine through a tube to a mask on the nose and/or mouth providing pressure which supports the muscles at the back of your throat to keep them open during sleep.
• The CPAP machine is always used during sleep to stop you snoring and having apnoeas and to improve your sleep quality.
• Daytime sleepiness should improve.
• It needs to be used for a minimum of five hours (preferably uninterrupted for the whole period of sleep). Use it each time you sleep, day or night.
• CPAP is not a cure for OSA. It keeps OSA under control and prevents problems which OSA causes.
• Always take it with you when you travel or go into hospital.
• When travelling overseas it must go with you as hand luggage on the plane.