Heated, humidified high-flow nasal cannula therapy: Yet another way to deliver continuous positive airway pressure?

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-88

  Kubicka, Zuzanna J ^a   Limauro, Joseph ^a   Darnall, Robert A ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous positive airway pressure; High flow nasal cannula; Infant; Oxygen delivery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FLOW RATE; HEATING; HUMAN; INFANT; MEASUREMENT; MOUTH CAVITY; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANOXIA; BENCHMARKING; CATHETERIZATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAT; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; MALE; NASAL CAVITY; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38049050677     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-0957     Document Type: Article

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