Effects Of Periodic Positive Airway Pressure by Mask on Postoperative Pulmonary Function

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure for Treatment of Respiratory Complications After Abdominal Surgery

“…17,46,48,49 Overall, the addition of CPAP to standard treatment was associated with a reduction of atelectasis with a risk ratio of 0.25 (95% CI, 0.03-0.42), with a corresponding NNTB of 7.3 (95% CI, 4.4 -64.5; Fig. 4).…”

“…Large variability was also observed regarding technical implementation of CPAP and timing of its application. In the trial carried out by Denehy et al, 17 [17][18][19][47][48][49][50][51] and through the endotracheal tube in 1 study. 46 Descriptive data of the populations included in the selected trials are summarized in Table 2.…”

Influence of lung collapse distribution on the physiologic response to recruitment maneuvers during noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure

“…In patients with cardiogenic pulmonary edema, n-CPAP produces a more rapid improvement in dyspnea, breathing pattern, and gas exchange [10][11][12]. After abdominal surgery, n-CPAP reduces the rate of postoperative pulmonary complications [13][14][15]. n-CPAP improves dyspnea [16,17], breathing frequency [16], and oxygenation [6,16,17] in patients with h-ARF of varied etiologies, including pneumonia [6,17].…”

Influence of upper body position on middle cerebral artery blood velocity during continuous positive airway pressure breathing

“…In the post-operative setting, CPAP is used for alveolar recruitment and/or for the prevention of atelectasis (Pinilla et al 1990; Ricksten et al 1986) and in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea nasal CPAP is applied to for prevention of upper airway obstruction (MansWeld et al 2004). Another means of improving pulmonary function and preventing ventilatorassociated pneumonia in patients is a backrest elevation (Dellinger et al 2004;Drakulovic et al 1999).…”