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Jonathan D. Finder, Robert Yellon, and Martin Charron
Successful Management of Tracheotomized Patients With Chronic Saliva Aspiration by Use of Constant Positive Airway Pressure
Pediatrics 2001; 107: 1343-1345 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF]
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Thivakorn Kasemsri   (6 June 2001)

Thanks 6 June 2001
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Thivakorn Kasemsri,
Pediatric Intensivist
Covenant Medical Group

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tkasemsri{at}home.com Thivakorn Kasemsri

Thank you for an elegant demonstration of the benefit of CPAP support that was passed on during my training more or less empirically and that I have incorporated in my practice over the years. I wonder,though, whether the benefits of CPAP in the patients you presented also had to do with maintainance of FRC. I wonder also how reactive saliva really is to the respiratory tree given it's otherwise myriad of beneficial chemical properties and that by evolution, it has come to reside in proximity to the respiratory tract.