by Prof. Betty Heathcote I
Published 2 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
EzPAP® is the easy option for the prevention and treatment of atelectasis and a medical need for lung expansion therapy. When incentive spirometry alone won't open patient's airways, expand your options with EzPAP®. It makes providing positive airway pressure positively easy.Apr 13, 2017
What is EzPAP used for?
EzPAP® is a lung expansion therapy that is used as an alternative to I.S. lung expansion therapy for increasing dorsal regional lung volume (i.e., Functional Residual Volume [FRC]) in an effort to prevent or reverse atelectasis.
Is EzPAP a hyperinflation therapy?
Inspiratory positive-pressure breathing (IPPB), Intermittent positive end expiratory pressure (EzPAP), and chest airway clearance (Metaneb) are hyperinflation therapies used after surgery.Nov 15, 2019
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What is lung expansion therapy?
Lung expansion therapy which includes IPPB and PEEP prevents and treats pulmonary atelectasis and improves lung compliance. Our study presented that patients with PMV have improvements in lung volume and oxygenation after receiving IPPB therapy.Mar 29, 2016
What is airway clearance techniques?
Airway clearance techniques (ACTs) loosen thick, sticky mucus so it can be cleared from your lungs by coughing or huffing. Clearing the airways may help decrease lung infections and improve lung function.
What is a flutter valve used for?
A flutter valve (also known as the Heimlich valve after its inventor, Henry Heimlich) is a one-way valve used in respiratory medicine to prevent air from travelling back along a chest tube.
Why is chest physiotherapy important?
Chest physiotherapy involves a number of physical techniques to help remove excess mucus from respiratory passages and improve breathing. The goal is to help patients breathe more freely and get more oxygen through the blood stream into all parts of the body. Normally, mucus helps lubricate the lungs.
Why do we use incentive spirometer?
Your health care provider may recommend that you use an incentive spirometer after surgery or when you have a lung illness, such as pneumonia. The spirometer is a device used to help you keep your lungs healthy. Using the incentive spirometer teaches you how to take slow deep breaths.Oct 23, 2021
What is acapella breathing device?
The Acapella Choice® airway clearance device is used to help remove mucus from the airways. The device may be used after taking a short-acting inhaled bronchodilator medication (as prescribed by your doctor). The medication helps open the airways to make the technique more effective.
What is Ezpap and how does it help with lung expansion?
The EZPAP® positive airway pressure system is used to expand the lungs by increasing Functional Residue Capacity (FRC). Increasing FRC has been found to contribute to the prevention and reversal of atelectasis.Apr 13, 2017
Why is lung expansion important?
The lung expansion techniques are widely used to prevent postoperative pulmonary complications. However, the effect of each technique on thoracoabdominal mechanics after abdominal surgery and if it influences the rate of postoperative pulmonary complications remains unknown.
How does lung expansion work?
Your smallest airways end in the alveoli, small, thin air sacs that are arranged in clusters like bunches of balloons. When you breathe in by enlarging the chest cage, the "balloons" expand as air rushes in to fill the vacuum. When you breathe out, the "balloons" relax and air moves out of the lungs.Dec 10, 2016
What is lung expansion therapy?
Lung expansion therapy is routinely used after upper abdominal surgery. Taking deep breaths after surgery helps lungs to stay inflated. At the University of Virginia, it is at the physician's discretion as to which treatment will be used to help with deep breathing lung inflation therapy after surgery.
What is EIT in a study?
The investigators will be using a device called Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) to measure how effectively air spreads in participants' lungs. This device is not currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the purpose used in this study, and therefore, it is considered investigational.
16-1 Performing Incentive Spirometry
IS is used to treat and prevent atelectasis. Devices, illustrated in Figure 16-1, may be flow-oriented devices, which measure and visually indicate the inspiratory flow and equate it with volume, or volume-oriented devices, which measure and indicate visually the volume the patient is achieving during a sustained maximal inspiration (SMI).
IPPB is a treatment modality in which inspiratory positive pressure is applied to the airway of a spontaneously breathing patient on a short-term basis, usually lasting about 15 minutes per treatment to treat atelectasis. Figure 16-3 illustrates pressure changes during spontaneous breathing compared with IPPB.
16-3 Administering EzPAP
Another device used for lung expansion therapy to aid in the treatment and prevention of atelectasis is EzPAP Positive Airway Pressure System (Smiths Medical, Norwell, MA) (Figure 16-5). It is often used when a patient has difficulties with incentive spirometry.
