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CPAP Machine Performance and Altitude
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Clinicians should consider this factor when CPAP is prescribed for patients who live or travel to places located at significantly higher or lower elevations than the titration site, unless a unit has pressure-compensating features.About:
This article is published in Chest.The article was published on 1995-12-01. It has received 21 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Continuous positive airway pressure & Positive end-expiratory pressure.read more
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High-altitude medicine.
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the acclimatization process, altitude illness, and whether common medical conditions will impair acclim atization or be aggravated or improved by altitude exposure.
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Travel to high altitude with pre-existing lung disease.
Andrew M. Luks,E R Swenson +1 more
TL;DR: Whether patients with pre-existing lung disease are at risk of developing one of the main forms of acute or chronic high-altitude illness and whether the underlying lung disease itself will get worse at high elevations is examined.
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Treatment of sleep-disordered breathing with positive airway pressure devices: technology update
TL;DR: This paper reviews PAP devices, including their algorithms, settings, and features, which vary greatly between the types of devices, and vary among the same category between companies and different models by the same company.
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High Altitude and Common Medical Conditions
Andrew M. Luks,Peter H. Hackett +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter considers medication use at high altitude and, in particular, whether medications used for treatment of underlying disorders have the potential for adverse interactions with medications used in the prophylaxis and treatment of acute altitude illness and whether the dose and choice of altitude illness medication needs to be altered depending on the patients underlying health issues.
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Problems with capnography at high altitude.
TL;DR: The study showed that the reduced air density at altitude has effects upon the pump, causing difficulty in entraining gas, and that high altitude has additional effects upon calibration of the instruments.
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Statistical methods for assessing agreement between two methods of clinical measurement.
TL;DR: An alternative approach, based on graphical techniques and simple calculations, is described, together with the relation between this analysis and the assessment of repeatability.
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Reversal of obstructive sleep apnoea by continuous positive airway pressure applied through the nares
TL;DR: Five patients with severe obstructive sleep apnoea were treated with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) applied via a comfortable nose mask through the nares, which provides a pneumatic splint for the nasopharyngeal airway and is a safe, simple treatment for the obstructiveSleep apNoea syndrome.
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Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
TL;DR: The preface to the first edition of Symbols and ABBREVIATIONS outlines the aims and objectives of the second edition, which aims to provide a “robust” discussion of the history and future prospects of dynamical engineering.