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Therapeutics > Emergency Treatment > Resuscitation > Respiration, Artificial > Positive-Pressure Respiration
Therapeutics > Respiratory Therapy > Respiration, Artificial > Positive-Pressure Respiration
Therapeutics > Airway Management > Respiration, Artificial > Positive-Pressure Respiration

Preferred term

Positive-Pressure Respiration  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Positive Pressure Ventilation
  • Positive-Pressure Ventilation
  • Positive-Pressure Ventilations
  • Ventilation, Positive-Pressure
  • Ventilations, Positive-Pressure

Note

  • note category: a type of artificial respiration; do not confuse with POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION, INTRINSIC, a type of respiratory insufficiency

Scope note

  • A method of mechanical ventilation in which pressure is maintained to increase the volume of gas remaining in the lungs at the end of expiration, thus reducing the shunting of blood through the lungs and improving gas exchange.

History note

  • 91; was POSITIVE PRESSURE RESPIRATION 1979-90; was heading 1963-78

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D011175

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