Effects of manually-assisted cough combined with postural drainage, saline instillation and airway suctioning in critically-ill patients during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation: a prospective observational single centre trial.

Conclusions: MAC, postural drainage, saline instillation and airway suctioning during HFOV in critically ill patients was well tolerated with no clinically significant effect on arterial blood gases or haemodynamics. ΔPaw decreased for up to 1 h after intervention, but was not explained by the weight of sputum removed. PMID: 24428194 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24428194?dopt=Abstract

Source: Physiotherapy Theory and Practice - January 15, 2014 Category: Physiotherapy Authors: Ntoumenopoulos G, Berry M, Camporota L Tags: Physiother Theory Pract Source Type: research