Non-invasive ventilation with continuous positive airway pressure is gaining popularity as a technique for achieving effective treatment in obstructive sleep apnea. However, we observed a patient at our institution complaining of dyspnea on exertion who was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism even after implementation of continuous positive airway pressure for 5 years. This is a worrying problem ...

The use of a supraglottic airway, also called laryngeal mask airway (LMA), is gaining in popularity for delivery of general anesthesia in certain situations and is shown to be safe. Use of infraglottic airways (tracheal tubes) allows for positive pressure ventilation and maneuvers, such as holding continuous positive pressure in the airway to check for pleural and dural leaks. We describe the s...

The UNDP country offices work with governments and partners to carry out a Country Programme (CP) to tackle poverty and its causes. A Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP), covering the duration of the programme cycle (typically 5 years) is developed and signed with the Government and it forms the basis of the cooperation between UNDP and the host Government. UNDP uses a Result Based Management ...

There is a growing body of evidence over the last years suggesting continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) ventilation being the first choice of ventilatory support in newborns with extremely low gestational age, and early rescue surfactant treatment being as effective as prophylactic therapy. The Intubation Surfactant Extubation procedure is discussed as an alternative procedure that may ha...

In this issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Ball and colleagues1 determined the optimal nebulizer configurations and positions for aerosol delivery in vitro with and without CPAP. They determined that with continuous high-flow CPAP, the greatest amount of albuterol delivered to a lung simulator (13.8 4.4%) was when the nebulizer was placed proximal to the lung simulator. Without CPAP, they determined th...

Centrioles are cylindrical structures that are usually composed of nine triplets of microtubules (MTs) organized around a cartwheel-shaped structure. Recent studies have proposed a structural model of the SAS-6-based cartwheel, yet we do not know the molecular detail of how the cartwheel participates in centriolar MT assembly. In this study, we demonstrate that the human microcephaly protein, C...

BACKGROUND CPAP is frequently used in prehospital and emergency settings. An air-flow output minimum of 60 L/min and a constant positive pressure are 2 important features for a successful CPAP device. Unlike hospital CPAP devices, which require electricity, CPAP devices for ambulance use need only an oxygen source to function. The aim of the study was to evaluate and compare on a bench model th...

We developed a cued pro- and antisaccade paradigm (CPAP) to explore automatic components of sexual interest. Heterosexual participants (n = 32 women, n = 25 men) had to perform fast eye movements toward and away from sexually relevant or irrelevant stimuli across a congruent (i.e., prosaccade toward sexually relevant stimuli, antisaccade away from sexually irrelevant stimuli) and an incongruent...