A High-Value, Low-Cost Bubble Continuous Positive Airway Pressure System for Low-Resource Settings: Technical Assessment and Initial Case Reports

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Brown, Jocelyn ^a   Machen, Heather ^b   Kawaza, Kondwani ^c   Mwanza, Zondiwe ^c   Iniguez, Suzanne ^d   Lang, Hans ^c   Gest, Alfred ^b   Kennedy, Neil ^c   Miros, Robert ^e   Richards Kortum, Rebecca ^a   Molyneux, Elizabeth ^c   Oden, Maria ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI   (Malawi)

^d TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e College of Medicine and Kamuzu Central Hospital ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NOSE DROPS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANESTHESIOLOGY THERAPEUTIC DEVICE; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; BREATHING RATE; BRONCHIOLITIS; BUBBLE CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE SYSTEM; CASE REPORT; COMPRESSED AIR; DISEASE SEVERITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFANT; MATERIALS MANAGEMENT; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESPIRATORY AIRFLOW;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRONCHIOLITIS; CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OXYGEN INHALATION THERAPY; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, NEWBORN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872800486     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053622     Document Type: Article

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