Body ventilators. Equipment and techniques.
Body ventilators have been used since the late 1800s and are still used today. This article reviews all of the body ventilators available today including tanks, cuirasses, wraps, rocking beds, and intermittent abdominal pressure ventilators. Diaphragm pacers and glossopharyngeal breathing also are reviewed. Clinical application of the ventilators, initiation, patient monitoring, and follow-up are reviewed.
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Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver, USA.
D004867:Equipment Design; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000628:therapy; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D009468:Neuromuscular Diseases / Q000628:therapy; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D015919:Ventilators, Negative-Pressure / Q000266:history