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  • Title: Continuous positive airway pressure versus positive end-expiratory pressure in respiratory distress syndrome.
    Author: Shah DM, Newell JC, Dutton RE, Powers SR.
    Journal: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg; 1977 Oct; 74(4):557-62. PubMed ID: 333189.
    Abstract:
    The hemodynamic and respiratory effects of spontaneous ventilation with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and mechanical ventilation with positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) were compared in nine patients who had adult respiratory distress syndrome. These patients were capable of maintaining spontaneous ventilation (tidal volume above 300 ml. and PaCO2 below 45 torr). Arterial and mixed venous blood gases, cardiac output, oxygen delivery and consumption, pulmonary artery pressure, and pulmonary wedge pressure were measured in 11 instances, with each patient on 5 or 10 cm. H2O CPAP or PEEP, and in nine instances, with each patient on the ventilator but without PEEP (O PEEP). During CPAP, when compared to PEEP at the same level of end-expiratory pressure, mean PaO2 increased significantly (p less than 0.05) and mean physiological shunt decreased (p less than 0.05). In nine of 11 instances, cardiac output was higher on CPAP than on a corresponding level of PEEP. Thus CPAP was more effective than the same amount of PEEP in improving arterial oxygenation by the lung without adversely affecting cardiac output.
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