Nasal-Aire ® is a single use CPAP interface available for the hospital market. It is the comfortable, economical solution to non-invasive ventilation. It provides a disposable option, comes completely assembled, and saves shelf space. Pressure Bleed Port allows pressure monitoring or oxygen entertainment. Nasal-Aire II Critical Care promotes patient compliance with no uncomfortable pressure points on the face and is non-claustrophobic.
This video is intended to aid respiratory therapists and others in the proper fit of a standard BiPAP mask. The fit system may change but the concepts should be used to assure proper sizing.
Sleep labs at the hospitals of Texas Health Resources help physicians diagnose and treat sleep disorders.
“Usually if a patient is suffering from sleep apnea, they are irritable or moody and may have morning headaches,” said Amanda Bowden, the Sleep Lab manager at Texas Health Harris Methodist HEB. “A lot of physiological problems go along with having sleep apnea.”
Sleep lab patients at Texas Health hospitals are monitored for different issues — nothing is invasive, there are no needle sticks, nothing hurts! Technicians monitor brain waves, heart waves, eye movement, respiratory movement in the abdomen and chest, a snore microphone, leg muscles, and oxygen saturation.
All of the data are digitally captured as wave-forms on a computer over a six- to eight-hour period.
Poor sleep can impact blood pressure, diabetes and vascular problems.
Interrupted airflow is a common problem with sleep apnea.
Therapy for sleep apnea might include CPAP — Continuous Positive Airway Pressure.
A sleep disorder essment can be completed online at: http://www.texashealth.org/workfiles/THR%20System/Service_Lines/SleepLabQuestionaire.pdf
Interested individuals can share the results of an essment with their doctor and ask about sleep studies at a Texas Health hospital.
Texas Health Resources
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Texas Health Resources 2009 Quality Conference Award Winner — Judges Award
Caregivers from Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth garnered the Judges Award on April 24 with “The Breath of Life: Using Bubble CPAP to Decrease Chronic Lung Disease in Premature Infants” at the 2009 Texas Health Resources Quality Conference.
In 2008, research showed a significant reduction in ventilator usage in premature infants by using Continuous Positive Airway Pressure, or CPAP. Caregivers wondered, could this respiratory support have an additional benefit for very low birthweight babies and decrease rates of chronic lung disease ociated with ventilator use?
Within a year of starting the project, instances of chronic lung disease have been reduced by more than 10 percent by using Bubble CPAP.
Texas Health Resources
1-877-THR-WELL
www.TexasHealth.org
Caregivers at Texas Health Resources are using Bubble CPAP — Continuous Positive Airway Pressure — to address the issues that can arise in premature infants born with very low birthweight.
The intent is to reduce chronic lung disease.
Bubble CPAP provides a little bit of boost when babies are breathing spontaneously, to ist their own respirations and help to maintain lung inflation at the end of their breaths.
It is noninvasive and allows new parents to bond with their baby in a way that is not possible when an infant is on a ventilator.
Texas Health Resources
1-877-THR-WELL
www.TexasHealth.org
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian
On Monday, November 6, 2006 at 2 PM EST, Join experts from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian for a webcast discussion about CPAP (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure). These experts will review aspects of the procedure, take questions from participants and discuss opportunities for working with your hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Units to share best practices.
Bubble CPAP or Continuous Positive Airway Pressure is a low-tech, labor-intensive therapy performed on newborns with Respiratory Distress Syndrome to prevent Chronic Lung Disease. Pressurized oxygen is delivered through prongs in the baby’s nose allowing continuous lung inflation. With Bubble CPAP, babies breathe with istance as opposed to a machine breathing for them. Bubble CPAP is a non-invasive technique unlike alternatives (i.e. surfactant and ventilators, both require intubation.)
Having trouble sleeping?
Introduction to BiPAP Series
Texas Health Resources 2009 Quality Conference Award Winner — Judges Award
Caregivers at Texas Health Resources are using Bubble CPAP — Continuous Positive Airway Pressure — to address the issues that can arise in premature infants born with very low birthweight. 
Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian