Positive pressure ventilation

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Positive pressure ventilation is a technique which utilizes a mechanism such as a mechanical ventilator to force air into the lungs, to assist breathing in patients with temporary, or chronic respiratory problems and disease.

High pressure air at the opening of the airway mobilizes oxygen flow down the pressure gradient, and into the patient's lungs. Spontaneous respiration usually happens, as a negative pressure is created inside the lungs and air enters quickly to fill this lower pressure.

The ventilation mechanism generates a positive pressure outside the patient. An intubation canula of some type is usually implemented to achieve this.

Positive pressure ventilation is also used in fire fighting to blow the smoke away and out of a burning room or structure. See Ventilation (firefighting).

See also

• Positive airway pressure
• Positive end-expiratory pressure

v • d • e Respiratory system, physiology: respiratory physiology
Volumes	lung volumes - vital capacity - functional residual capacity - respiratory minute volume - closing capacity - dead space - spirometry - body plethysmography - peak flow meter - thoracic independent volume - bronchial challenge test
Airways	ventilation (V) (positive pressure) - breath (inhalation, exhalation) -respiratory rate - respirometer - pulmonary surfactant - compliance - hysteresivity - airway resistance
Blood	pulmonary circulation - perfusion (Q) - hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction - pulmonary shunt
Interactions	ventilation/perfusion ratio (V/Q) and scan - zones of the lung - gas exchange - pulmonary gas pressures - alveolar gas equation - hemoglobin - oxygen-haemoglobin dissociation curve (2,3-DPG, Bohr effect, Haldane effect) - carbonic anhydrase (chloride shift) - oxyhemoglobin - respiratory quotient - arterial blood gas - diffusion capacity - Dlco
Control of respiration	pons (pneumotaxic center, apneustic center) - medulla (dorsal respiratory group, ventral respiratory group) - chemoreceptors (central, peripheral) - pulmonary stretch receptors (Hering-Breuer reflex)
Insufficiency	high altitude - oxygen toxicity - hypoxia

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