title: Nursing the patient receiving continuous positive airway pressure therapy.
abstract: The shortfalls of standard oxygen therapy and the increasing trend toward avoiding mechanical ventilation has led to greater use of Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) therapy. What was once the domain of intensive care units has now become a common therapy in many acute clinical settings.
authors.affiliation: NSW College of Nursing.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Marshall
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pittard
mesh_terms: D000075202:Contraindications; D006801:Humans; D011175:Positive-Pressure Respiration / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing*