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

Preferred term

Continuous Positive Airway Pressure  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • CPAP Ventilation
  • Ventilation, CPAP

Note

  • BiPAP (BIPHASIC CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE) in the literature goes here and BIPAP (BIPHASIC INTERMITTENT POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE) goes under INTERMITTENT POSITIVE-PRESSURE VENTILATION

Scope note

  • A technique of respiratory therapy, in either spontaneously breathing or mechanically ventilated patients, in which airway pressure is maintained above atmospheric pressure throughout the respiratory cycle by pressurization of the ventilatory circuit. (On-Line Medical Dictionary [Internet]. Newcastle upon Tyne(UK): The University Dept. of Medical Oncology: The CancerWEB Project; c1997-2003 [cited 2003 Apr 17]. Available from: http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/)

History note

  • 2004

In other languages

  • CPAP

    Finnish

  • C-PAP
  • CPAP-hengitys
  • CPAP-hoito
  • jatkuva positiivinen hengitystiepaine
  • jatkuva ylipainehengitys
  • positiivinen painehengitys
  • Kontinuerligt positivt luftvägstryck

    Swedish

  • CPAP-behandling
  • Nasalt kontinuerligt positivt luftvägstryck

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D045422

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