Sentence examples for clearance device from inspiring English sources
Burnett said the brain has its own type of clearance device and will only remember the most important and recent things, which makes sense.
The airway clearance device (CoughAssist™, Respironics Philips) was provided by Respironics, Philips, Spain.
Subjects were disconnected from the ventilator tubing to be connected to the tubing of the airway clearance device.
We also usually provide continuous oxygen flow during the procedure because the airway clearance device uses ambient air without supplemental oxygen.
The specific indication for the use of a mechanical airway clearance device is the lack of effective cough in spite of respiratory physiotherapy, with the aim to reduce the risk for atelectasis and respiratory tract infection.
The only inclusion criterion for aspiration of respiratory secretions with the "Cough Assist™" airway clearance device was therefore the need for secretion suctioning, regardless of severity or degree of respiratory or other organ dysfunctions.
Oxygen, physical therapy, mucolytics, and airway clearance devices may be useful in selected patients.
Airway clearance devices providing mechanically assisted cough or mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MIE), in contrast to manually assisted cough, are being used to facilitate aspiration of tracheobronchial secretions.
Recent versions of airway clearance devices allow for application of insufflation and exsufflation, i.e., positive and negative pressures, of up to 70 and − 70 cmH2O, respectively, with duration of inspiratory and expiratory plateau pressures of up to 5 s and optional concomitant high frequency oscillation during both.
The observed benefit of inhaled HS appeared in addition to that of established airway clearance strategies such as nebulised rhDNase therapy and mechanical airway clearance devices.
Long-term study are needed, not only to establish the effectiveness of different airways clearance devices or techniques and their cost-effectiveness, but especially to establish their acceptability in order to long-term home use.
