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  2. Negative room pressure - Wikipedia

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    Schematic of a network of rooms where air (shown in blue) flows in one direction from the corridor into the negative pressure room (green). Exhaust air is safely removed from the area through a ventilation system. Negative pressure is generated and maintained in a room by a ventilation system that continually attempts to move air out of the ...

  3. Iron lung - Wikipedia

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    The concept of external negative pressure ventilation was introduced by John Mayow in 1670. The first widely used device was the iron lung, developed by Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw in 1928. Initially used for coal gas poisoning treatment, the iron lung gained fame for treating respiratory failure caused by polio in the mid-20th century.

  4. Negative pressure ventilator - Wikipedia

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    Continuous external negative pressure ventilation (CENPV) was found in a 2015 study to "[improve] oxygenation under [a greater number of] physiological conditions", concurrent with lower "airway," "transpulmonary," and "intra-abdominal" pressures, than experienced with continuous positive pressure ventilation (CPPV), in study of adult ...

  5. Mechanical ventilation - Wikipedia

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    To achieve negative pressure ventilation, there must be a sub-atmospheric pressure to draw air into the lungs. This was first achieved in the late 19th century when John Dalziel and Alfred Jones independently developed tank ventilators, in which ventilation was achieved by placing a patient inside a box that enclosed the body in a box with sub ...

  6. Modes of mechanical ventilation - Wikipedia

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    Airway pressure release ventilation graph. Airway pressure release ventilation is a time-cycled alternant between two levels of positive airway pressure, with the main time on the high level and a brief expiratory release to facilitate ventilation. [5] Airway pressure release ventilation is usually utilized as a type of inverse ratio ventilation.

  7. Ventilation (firefighting) - Wikipedia

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    The method of negative pressure ventilation is a process of using smoke ejectors to remove the smoke from a building. [3] Negative pressure ventilation is not used as much as positive pressure ventilation for the reason that positive pressure can move more air throughout the structure and clear out more smoke in a timely manner.

  8. Glossary of breathing apparatus terminology - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Inhalation - Wikipedia

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    This negative pressure generates airflow because of the pressure difference between the atmosphere and alveolus. The inflow of air into the lungs occurs via the respiratory airways. In health, these airways begin with the nose. [3] [4] It is possible to begin with the mouth, which is the backup breathing system.