Airway clearance

What is airway clearance?

This therapy is for patients who cannot expel their pulmonary secretions because they have muscular dystrophy, myasthenia gravis, polio or another neurological disorder that causes paralysis of the respiratory muscles (for example, a spinal cord injury).

It can also be used in the treatment of an ineffective cough due to other illnesses, such as emphysema, cystic fibrosis and bronchiectasis.

Airway clearance therapy can be administered through two techniques:

  • High-frequency chest wall oscillation system.
  • Mechanically assisted coughing system (mechanical insufflation-exsufflation).

Airway clearance techniques

Chest wall oscillation system

This airway clearance system consists of an inflatable vest connected to an air pulse generator, which carries out intermittent pneumatic chest compressions.
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Mechanically assisted coughing system

This technique aims to assist or substitute the respiratory muscles when they are weakened and unable to generate an effective cough.
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