Two newborn infants with respiratory failure due to phrenic nerve palsy were treated with continuous positive pressure breathing applied by nasal cannula. Rapid improvement of clinical, X ray, and arterial oxygen findings followed. Some weeks after suspension of the treatment, respiratory symptoms had disappeared in one patient, but persisted to a moderate degree in the other.
Phrenic nerve palsy treated by continuous positive pressure breathing by nasal cannula / G., Bucci; G., Marzetti; S., Picece Bucci; S., Nodari; Agostino, Rocco; Moretti, Corrado. - In: ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD. - ISSN 0003-9888. - 49:3(1974), pp. 230-232.
Phrenic nerve palsy treated by continuous positive pressure breathing by nasal cannula
AGOSTINO, Rocco;MORETTI, Corrado
1974
Abstract
Two newborn infants with respiratory failure due to phrenic nerve palsy were treated with continuous positive pressure breathing applied by nasal cannula. Rapid improvement of clinical, X ray, and arterial oxygen findings followed. Some weeks after suspension of the treatment, respiratory symptoms had disappeared in one patient, but persisted to a moderate degree in the other.File allegati a questo prodotto
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