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Intermittent positive pressure breathing (IPPB) is a respiratory therapy treatment for people who are hypoventilating. While not a preferred method due to cost, [ 1 ] IPPB is used to expand the lungs, deliver aerosol medications, and in some circumstances ventilate the patient.
An iron lung is a type of negative pressure ventilator, a mechanical respirator which encloses most of a person's body and varies the air pressure in the enclosed space to stimulate breathing. [1] [2] It assists breathing when muscle control is lost, or the work of breathing exceeds the person's ability. [1]
Oldest devices utilised for intermittent positive-pressure breathing (IPPB) therapy. These models were used in WW2 because the units were small, compact and easy to use.
Carl Gunnar David Engström (1 September 1912 – 9 January 1987) was a Swedish physician and innovator. He is the inventor of the first intermittent positive pressure mechanical ventilator that could deliver breaths of controllable volume and frequency and also deliver inhalation anesthetics.
A negative pressure ventilator (NPV) is a type of mechanical ventilator that stimulates an ill person's breathing by periodically applying negative air pressure to their body to expand and contract the chest cavity.
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Positive pressures oxygenation is used to reverse the negative pressures in the chest resulting from the obstruction. [2] [6] In cases where endotracheal intubation is difficult or cannot be done, creation of a surgical airway may be necessary in order provide positive-pressure ventilation. [1]
negative pressure breathing 1. (medical) Ventilation in which the surface of the thorax is exposed to pressure below the ambient pressure during inspiration. Used as a method of artificial respiration (iron lung). [45] 2. (diving) Breathing where the pressure of the breathing gas at the mouth is lower than the ambient pressure at the thorax.