See Also: bruit de canon(medicine)
positive end-expiratory pressure(medicine)
positive-pressure respiration(medicine)
positive-negative pressure breathing(medicine)
intermittent positive-pressure ventilation(medicine)
intermittent positive-pressure breathing(medicine)
continuous positive pressure breathing(medicine)
positive-pressure respiration, intrinsic(medicine)
continuous positive airway pressure(medicine)
continuous positive pressure ventilation(medicine)

positive-pressure respiration (medicine) and bruit de canon (medicine)


positive-pressure respiration (medicine)


positive-pressure respiration


A method of mechanical ventilation in which pressure is maintained to increase the volume of gas remaining in the lungs at the end of expiration, thus reducing the shunting of blood through the lungs and improving gas exchange.


bruit de canon (medicine)


bruit de canon


The loud first heart sound heard intermittently in complete atrioventricular block and in interference-dissociation when the ventricles happen to contract shortly after the atria.

Synonym: cannon sound.