Management of chronic alveolar hypoventilation with nasal positive pressure breathing.
Negative pressure ventilation is the most common method of providing assisted ventilation without a tracheostomy. Unfortunately, negative pressure devices have several disadvantages and are not well tolerated by all patients. We present a patient in whom intermittent assisted ventilation was applied successfully by using a nasal mask to provide positive pressure ventilatory support.
D000328:Adult; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000097:blood; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007040:Hypoventilation / Q000097:blood / Q000628:therapy*; D010100:Oxygen / Q000097:blood; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000295:instrumentation*
D002245:Carbon Dioxide; D010100:Oxygen