title: Use of the Inspiron nebuliser during continuous positive airway pressure ventilation.
abstract: The Inspiron Nebuliser 002305 with air entrainment was assessed as a gas delivery device in a continuous positive airway pressure system. Inspired oxygen concentrations, total gas flows and pressures within the system were measured over a range of settings, with and without positive and expiratory pressure. Inspired oxygen concentrations and total flows were completely disrupted when a positive and expiratory pressure valve was applied, and the system failed to generate continuous positive airway pressure. We would not therefore recommend the Inspiron nebuliser as a gas delivery system for continuous positive airway pressure.
authors.affiliation: Birmingham Accident Hospital.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hardwick
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dickson
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Clutton-Brock
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009330:Nebulizers and Vaporizers; D010100:Oxygen; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011312:Pressure; D012119:Respiration
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen