Successful management of tracheotomized patients with chronic saliva aspiration by use of constant positive airway pressure

Pediatrics

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1343-1345

  Finder, Jonathan D ^a   Yellon, Robert ^a   Charron, Martin ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Constant positive airway pressure; Saliva; Salivagram; Tracheotomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHOANA ATRESIA; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; LARYNGOMALACIA; LUNG ASPIRATION; LUNG CONGESTION; MALE; PATIENT CARE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; TRACHEOTOMY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT OBSTRUCTION;

ADULT; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ANOXEMIA; BRONCHIAL SPASM; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INHALATION; MALE; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALIVA; TRACHEOTOMY; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO;

EID: 0035016296     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.107.6.1343     Document Type: Article

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