Our aim was to verify in healthy subjects submitted to nasal intermittent positive pressure ventilation (nIPPV) with a volumetric ventilator on controlled mode, whether changes in ventilator settings (delivered tidal volume (VT), respiratory frequency (fR) and inspiratory flow (V'I) could influence effective minute ventilation (V'E), thus allowing identification of the settings resulting in the...

BACKGROUND Intermittent positive pressure ventilation applied through a nasal mask has been shown to be useful in the treatment of chronic respiratory insufficiency. Pressure support ventilation is an assisted mode of ventilation which is being increasingly used. Invasive ventilation with intermittent positive pressure, with or without positive end expiratory pressure (PEEP), has been found to ...

Mechanical ventilation is associated with increased survival of preterm infants but is also associated with an increased incidence of chronic lung disease (bronchopulmonary dysplasia) in survivors. Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) is a form of noninvasive ventilation that reduces the need for mechanical ventilation and decreases the combined outcome of death or bronchopulmonary...

1 Sanders MH, Kern N. Obstructive sleep apnea treated by independently adjusted inspiratory and expiratory positive airway pressures via nasal mask: physiologic and clinical implications. Chest 1990; 98:317-24 2 Steljes DG, Kryger MH, Kirk BS, Millar TW Sleep in postpohio syndrome. Chest 1990; 98:133-40 3 Bach JR, Alba AS, Mosher R, Delaubier A. Intermittent positive pressure ventilation via na...

1 Sanders MH, Kern N. Obstructive sleep apnea treated by independently adjusted inspiratory and expiratory positive airway pressures via nasal mask: physiologic and clinical implications. Chest 1990; 98:317-24 2 Steljes DG, Kryger MH, Kirk BS, Millar TW Sleep in postpohio syndrome. Chest 1990; 98:133-40 3 Bach JR, Alba AS, Mosher R, Delaubier A. Intermittent positive pressure ventilation via na...

1 Sanders MH, Kern N. Obstructive sleep apnea treated by independently adjusted inspiratory and expiratory positive airway pressures via nasal mask: physiologic and clinical implications. Chest 1990; 98:317-24 2 Steljes DG, Kryger MH, Kirk BS, Millar TW Sleep in postpohio syndrome. Chest 1990; 98:133-40 3 Bach JR, Alba AS, Mosher R, Delaubier A. Intermittent positive pressure ventilation via na...

Background Infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS) is one of the main causes of serious complications and death in preterm infants. Both Nasal Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (NCPAP) and Nasal Intermittent Positive Pressure Ventilation (NIPPV) are known as the most common treatment strategies for IRDS. The present study intended to compare NCPAP and NIPPV in the treatment of preterm inf...