Intermittent positive pressure breathing (IPPB) is a respiratory therapy treatment for people who are hypoventilating. While not a preferred method due...

ventilation include positive pressure ventilation where air is pushed into the lungs through the airways, and negative pressure ventilation where air...

and the location of the area in most need of therapy. Intermittent positive pressure breathing (IPPB) physiotherapy has long been used in the intensive...

breath-by-breath basis by measuring the resistance in the patient's breathing. Bilevel positive airway pressure (BPAP) is a mode used during non-invasive ventilation...

force: the breathing effort of the user, or mechanical work from an external source, by operational pressure regime: at ambient pressure or in isolation...

underwater, both during breath-hold dives and while breathing at ambient pressure from a suitable breathing gas supply. It, therefore, includes the range of...

Intermittent Mandatory Ventilation (IMV) refers to any mode of mechanical ventilation where a regular series of breaths are scheduled but the ventilator...

Ger (1994). "Chapter 4". Theaters of truth and competence. Intermittent positive pressure respiration during the 1952 polio-epidemic in Copenhagen. Archived...

The American Thoracic Society defines it as "a subjective experience of breathing discomfort that consists of qualitatively distinct sensations that vary...

altitude breathing apparatus is a breathing apparatus which allows a person to breathe more effectively at an altitude where the partial pressure of oxygen...

bellows unit, which fell intermittently under gravity, forcing breathing gases into the patient's lungs. The inflation pressure could be varied by sliding...

intramuscular(ly) INR international normalized ratio IPPB intermittent positive pressure breathing IU international unit IV intravenous(ly) IVU intravenous urography...

pressure ventilator (NPV) is a type of mechanical ventilator that stimulates an ill person's breathing by periodically applying negative air pressure...

regulator or underwater diving regulator is a pressure regulator that controls the pressure of breathing gas for underwater diving. The most commonly recognised...

mucinous neoplasm IPPB intermittent positive pressure breathing (see mechanical ventilation) IPPV intermittent positive pressure ventilation (see mechanical...

spontaneously breathing or not breathing sufficiently. bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP Breathing assist apparatus using a higher positive pressure on inspiration...

special physical and health risks when they go underwater or use high pressure breathing gas. The consequences of diving incidents range from merely annoying...

Some of these use breathing gases other than air or pure oxygen, when the partial pressure of oxygen must be limited but the pressure required is relatively...

ambient pressures due to altitude, by breathing hypoxic breathing gas at an unsuitable depth, by breathing inadequately re-oxygenated recycled breathing gas...

patients assume more work of breathing. Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation is the delivery of positive pressure ventilation through a tight-fitting...

ventilators in clinical practice. Oldest devices utilised for intermittent positive-pressure breathing (IPPB) therapy. These models were used in WW2 because the...

deliver this continuously to the patient at a safe pressure and flow. This is distinct from intermittent-flow anaesthetic machines, which provide gas flow...

air that can be inhaled and exhaled. Spirometry is helpful in assessing breathing patterns that identify conditions such as asthma, pulmonary fibrosis,...

Cheyne-Stokes Breathing (CSB), for which the treatment recommended by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and...

pressure release ventilation was described initially by Stock and Downs in 1987 as a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) with an intermittent release...

arrangement of components and function of gas pressure regulators used in the systems which supply breathing gases for underwater diving. Both free-flow...

especially thoracoplasty; also in relation to cardiolysis and intermittent positive pressure breathing" "Work on hormones, especially hormones of the follicle...

high altitude environment include oxygen enrichment of breathing air and/or an increase of pressure in an enclosed environment. Other effects of high altitude...

generation plants. Two methods in common use are pressure swing adsorption and membrane gas separation. Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) oxygen concentrators...

with intermittent pressure machines. Both Stough and the doctors were skeptical about the results. Stough felt all pressure applied to the breathing mechanism...