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. 1977;31(1-2):111-5.
doi: 10.1159/000240950.

Effects of continuous distending pressure on lung volumes and lung mechanics in the immediate neonatal period

A D Milner, R A Saunders, I E Hopkin

Effects of continuous distending pressure on lung volumes and lung mechanics in the immediate neonatal period

A D Milner et al. Biol Neonate. 1977.

Abstract

The effects of CPAP and CNEP on lung mechanics and lung volumes were investigated in a group of 12 healthy newborn infants. Both resulted in a mild suppression of respiration. The fall in TPR50 was far greater during CPAP than during CNEP. Both led to a one third fall in dynamic compliance. Approximately 50% of the distending pressure was transmitted to the mediastinal structures whether applied as CPAP or CNEP.

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