BACKGROUND The addition of both noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure (n-CPAP) or noninvasive intermittent positive pressure ventilation (n-IPPV) to medical treatment has been shown to improve the outcome of patients with acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema (ACPE). Previous studies indicated a potential risk of new-onset acute myocardial infarction (AMI) associated with the use of n-IPP...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a new respiratory management protocol on respiratory morbidity and hospitalization rates for patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). DESIGN A retrospective cohort study. METHODS Using a protocol in which oxyhemoglobin desaturation was prevented or reversed by the use of noninvasive intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) and assi...

background: application noninvasive ventilation in the patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (copd) reduced mortality. this case-control study was designed to compare efficiency and outcome of non-invasive (niv) versus invasive positive pressure ventilation (ippv) in respiratory failure due to copd methods: the patients were assigned to niv or ippv intermittantly.t...

24-48 hour IPPV and timed dose/continuous infusion of parenteral narcotics; 24-48 hour IPPV The relief of pain is of crucial importance in the plus extradural catheter analgesia; intra-operative management of patients undergoing a total threedirect intercostal nerve blocks, extubation and stage oesophagectomy. Respiratory problems as a parenteral analgesics. Morbidities and mortalities result o...

Over a 25 year period, 31 asthmatic children received artificial ventilation for acute asthma at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on 48 occasions. Altogether 47 episodes occurred from 1971-89, with no decline in the number of episodes per year (mean 2.5) over this period. Eight children died during intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV), and of the 23 survivors, three further children h...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of pulmonary function through intermittent positive pressure ventilator(IPPV) exercises in the patients with spinal cord injury. Methods In order to demonstrate the effect of the study that IPPV group(n=13) and pursed lips breathing(PLB) group(n =11) and general physical therapy(GPT) group(n=9) were randomly assigned to proceed with th...

BACKGROUND Atelectasis may occur and ventilation-perfusion mismatch may increase during general anaesthesia with neuromuscular paralysis and mechanical ventilation, though preservation of some intermittent muscle contraction might mitigate this process. There is still no ideal manoeuvre to minimize such mismatch or atelectasis. Bi-level positive airway pressure (BiPAP) ventilation adjusts to ex...

Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation (IPPV) at our days is the gold standard treatment for patients requiring mechanical ventilation during general anesthesia and intensive care.1 The principal goals of IPPV are: improve tissue oxygenation, reduce hypercapnia and the related respiratory acidosis and reduce the work of breathing of the patient.1 Despite its important therapeutic functions,...

STUDY OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that the continuous gas flow administration delivered through an insufflation catheter positioned above the carina during airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) would facilitate carbon dioxide (CO2) elimination, resulting in normocarbia with a substantially reduced peak airway pressure (Paw). To test this hypothesis, we compared intermittent positive pressure...