Nasal mask ventilation is better than face mask ventilation in edentulous patients

Face mask ventilation using a lower lip face mask placement in edentulous patients.

The comments of Drs. Maxwell and Mihm invite a further discussion of diuretic use in the setting of postoperative negative-pressure pulmonary edema (NPPE). Although diuretics were administered to the patient in our case, as originally stated, it is debatable whether this therapy benefited the patient in the case scenario. In NPPE, the primary problem is not fluid overload but a combination of n...

Noninvasive ventilation is more than mask ventilation.

Noninvasive Nasal Mask Ventilation

Setting: A ward of respiratory medicine of a tertiaryreferral teaching hospital. Patients: The study group included 15 patients with acute respiratory acidosis. These patients had pH less than 7.35 and PaC02 more than 60mm Hg, respiratory rate of 30 breaths or less per minute, hemodynamic stability, and alertness and willingness of cooperation with the NMV treatment. The control group consisted...

Biphasic cuirass ventilation is better than bag-valve mask ventilation for resuscitation following organophosphate poisoning

OBJECTIVE Exposure to organophosphates (OP) may lead to a life threatening cholinergic crisis with death attributed to a rapidly progressive respiratory failure. In a toxicological mass casualty event involving organophosphate exposure, many of the victims may depend on immediate short-term ventilation to overcome the respiratory distress which may exhaust life supporting resources. In addition...

Nasal mask ventilation in acute respiratory failure.

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