Evaluation of droplet dispersion during non-invasive ventilation, oxygen therapy, nebuliser treatment and chest physiotherapy in clinical practice: implications for management of pandemic influenza and other airborne infections
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...35 Suggestions that HFNC might be safe are questionable: studies that might be taken to support the safety of HFNC were not designed to show whether or not HFNC is aerosol generating and did not examine the spread of viruses....
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...[34] [35] [36] [37] The risk of nosocomial transmission in shared ICU rooms should be studied....
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...Although most of the aerosol emitted comes from the device (80, 81), there is a risk that patients may exhale contaminated aerosol and droplets produced by coughing when using a nebulizer and may be dispersed more widely by the driving gas....
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...Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is included in the group because patients with OSA are at increased risk of postoperative respiratory impairment(22,23) and the aerosolization risk associated with the use of some positive airway pressure devices.(16)...
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"Evaluation of droplet dispersion du..." refers methods in this paper
...Those who were using NIV received 20 minutes of ventilatory support at their current clinically indicated IPAP and EPAP settings, with oxygen entrained to maintain saturation to > 90%, first with the modified circuit and non-vented mask (2) and secondly with the vented face mask (1)....
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...NIV was delivered (1) using a vented full-face mask that was sized to subject (ResMed vented hospital-use face mask) or (2) using a modified circuit....
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...Methods: Three groups were studied: (1) normal controls, (2) subjects with coryzal symptoms and (3) adult patients with chronic lung disease who were admitted to hospital with an infective exacerbation....
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...Three groups were studied: (1) normal control subjects, (2) subjects with coryzal symptoms and (3) adult patients with chronic lung disease who were admitted to hospital with an infective exacerbation....
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"Evaluation of droplet dispersion du..." refers methods in this paper
...Those who were using NIV received 20 minutes of ventilatory support at their current clinically indicated IPAP and EPAP settings, with oxygen entrained to maintain saturation to > 90%, first with the modified circuit and non-vented mask (2) and secondly with the vented face mask (1)....
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...NIV was delivered (1) using a vented full-face mask that was sized to subject (ResMed vented hospital-use face mask) or (2) using a modified circuit....
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...Methods: Three groups were studied: (1) normal controls, (2) subjects with coryzal symptoms and (3) adult patients with chronic lung disease who were admitted to hospital with an infective exacerbation....
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...Three groups were studied: (1) normal control subjects, (2) subjects with coryzal symptoms and (3) adult patients with chronic lung disease who were admitted to hospital with an infective exacerbation....
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