Airway Clearance Techniques Devices

But instead of pushing tens of liters of pressurized air per minute into the upper airway continuously keepap mobilizes the user s respiratory system to deliver just the amount of pap needed intermittently and with minimal airflow.

Airway clearance techniques devices. Breathing with these devices vibrates the large and small airways. Accumulation of mucus and sputum restricts air from freely flowing into and out of the lungs. Intrapulmonary percussive ventilation ipv device. Benefits of airway clearance devices.

How far have we come in our understanding and use of airway clearance techniques acts in bronchiectasis. 1 3. Oscillating pep devices include the fluttertm acapellatm cornettm and intrapulmonary percussive ventilation ipv. Chest physical therapy cpt or chest pt is an airway clearance technique act to drain the lungs and may include percussion clapping vibration deep breathing and huffing or coughing.

Cough and sputum production are defining symptoms in bronchiectasis 1 2 because the pathophysiology of bronchiectasis leads to impaired mucociliary clearance it makes theoretical sense to enhance mucociliary clearance through acts 3 chest physiotherapy and acts including the use of. This vibration thins dislodges and moves mucus. Often coupled with cpt postural drainage is an airway clearance therapy that uses gravity to facilitate mucus clearance from the air passages. This course will provide you with an introduction to the principles of airway clearance a variety of airway clearance techniques and devices and provide you with the practical applications of these devices.

To decrease the work of breathing. The purpose of chest physiotherapy are. To optimize the ventilation perfusion ratio improve gas exchange. A few airway clearance devices include.

Like traditional pap based devices keepap uses positive airway pressure to keep the upper airway open. To optimize lung compliance and prevent it from collapsing. Oral high frequency oscillation ohfo device. This cycle is repeated many times.

After blowing through the device many times the person coughs or huffs. Overall the committee recommended that all people with cf should perform airway clearance to maintain lung function and improve quality of life level of evidence fair. Airway clearance is an essential part of cf physiotherapy care and should be incorporated into every day. Each postural drainage position there are at least 10 is designed to promote drainage from a different segment of the lung.

Autogenic drainage ad oscillatory pep devices opep high frequency chest compression hfcc devices.